From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:12:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1338
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5034e6bdb20e580857a9386f7fdf32ecb62b2e6a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

*** empty log message ***
---

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9f98ed2254..82a74bf6dc 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -164,3 +164,8 @@ Changes expected to go in, post-5.2.1:
   getpwnam from Bruce Korb
 
   pb (progress bar) from Miika Pekkarinen
+
+  Look into improving the performance of md5sum.
+  `openssl md5' is consistently about 30% faster than md5sum on an idle
+  AMD 2000-XP system with plenty of RAM and a 261 MB input file.
+  openssl's md5 implementation is in assembly, generated by a perl script.