[Mono-dev] Type.GUID patch

[Robert Jordan]

Hi Sebastien,

>>MSFT's implementation (actually an InternalCall) is 3 times slower
>>then the computation of an MD5 hash using an *unmanaged* implementation
>>of the MD5 algorithm. 
> 
> 
> Oh, that's interesting. How does this compare to your managed
> implementation (using Mono's managed MD5 implementation) ?

Mono SVN:	0.072
.NET 1.1sp1:	0.147
.NET 2.0b2:	0.114

.NET's MD5CryptoServiceProvider uses InternalCalls.

I used L. Peter Deutsch's unmanaged MD5 implementation:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42360

Rob