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@@ -164,3 +164,8 @@ Changes expected to go in, post-5.2.1:
   getpwnam from Bruce Korb
 
   pb (progress bar) from Miika Pekkarinen
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+  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.