From 5034e6bdb20e580857a9386f7fdf32ecb62b2e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:12:44 +0000
Subject: *** empty log message ***

---
 TODO | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9f98ed225..82a74bf6d 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.
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