Investigating MD5 overheads

Posted on January 4, 2021

A few weeks ago we received a PR intending to speed up java.util.UUID::nameUUIDFromBytes by caching the return from MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5") in a static field . On the face of it, this seemed like a nice little improvement. But that was before realizing that…

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