aeyakovenko:
inlining some of the functions definitely gave me a boost, so i am about 8.5 times slower then openssl sha1sum. I dont really understand the core output, but after inlining i got a completely different profile output, i am guessing its because the cost of the inlined functions is spread to the callers.
COST CENTRE MODULE %time %alloc
updateElem SHA1 13.4 0.0 sRotateL SHA1 13.4 0.0 hashElem SHA1 12.5 0.0 sXor SHA1 10.9 0.0 unboxW SHA1 10.0 0.0
So I'd now dive in and seriously look at the Core for these guys. Work out what they're doing, and how they differ from the C version. -- Don