I minor changes, fixing up my chunking function (finally) thus eliminating the space leak. Performance is now under 3x that of C! Yay! Also, nano MD5 benched at 1.15x 'C' (for files small enough for strict ByteStrings to do ok). Get the code: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~tommd/pureMD5 On the 2GB benchmark it is even more competitive (see my blog on sequence.complete). Let me know if you get significantly different results (and you will if you IO doesn't horribly bottle neck you like on my laptop). -Tom
You might like to test against,
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/nano-md5-0.1
which is a strict bytestring openssl binding.
-- Don -- "The philosophy behind your actions should never change, on the other hand, the practicality of them is never constant." - Thomas Main DuBuisson