[Haskell-cafe] MD5 performance optimizations

[Salvatore Insalaco]

2008/5/21 Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>:
> Woo!
>
> Salvatore kindly sent me a Darcs patch, and applying it does indeed make it
> run faster. Yay!

Hi Andrew,
I'm glad that -fvia-c works for you: maybe it's a Mac OS X specific bug?

Anyway, did you compile with -fvia-c -optc-O3? I expect
register-intensive code like this to be at least 20% faster with gcc.

Salvatore