MD5 Performance

We measured the performance of MD5 on various platforms:

We measured the reference implementation of MD5 as provided in its RFC.

For comparison, we also show UDP/IP application bandwidth on a Sun SPARC-10/51 (100 Mbps) and SPARC-20/71 (120 Mbps). In each case, MD5 is 1/3-1/2 the required speed to keep pace with IP.

Cache enable/disable and optimizations were made to the reference implementation.

The code was measured with caching disabled for Raw and Optimized. The Optimized code was also measured with external caching and internal caching enabled.

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