On 2002.02.05 00:06 Berke Durak wrote:
> I.e. better support for int32's. I understand that the Caml team does
> not want people to use int32's (or int64's) by default. However a lot
> of coding/crypto stuff, deserving to be ported to Caml, works with
> 32-bit ints and it would be good to be able to use them at full speed.
> 
> For example, the MD5 routine used in Digest.string could be efficiently
> rewritten in Caml.

I have coded Blowfish and DES in Caml, and optimizing them is painful.
I would not do it again. Interestingly, Blowfish is faster if it uses
only int and not int32, although twice as many int operations are
needed than int32 operations.

Gerd
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