RFR: 8258588: MD5 MessageDigest in java.util.UUID should be cached

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:08:22 GMT, PROgrm_JARvis <github.com+7693005+JarvisCraft at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> Hi Claes,
>>> Would flattening the state of MD5 bring any further improvements?
>>> [plevart at 92bf48f](https://github.com/plevart/jdk/commit/92bf48ff58f0ce9648e49466dbf1befebbf49083)
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>> I think it might, marginally, but it seemed to me that the implCompress0 MD5 intrinsic is using `state` so I've not tried that yet since rewriting and checking the intrinsic code is a lot of work. (I've blogged about my experiments in this area and mentioned this issue in passing: https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html#accidental-constraints)
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@JarvisCraft Can you re-run your benchmarks in light of the changes that @cl4es pointed out in the previous comment? We think this PR can be closed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1821