Michael Morrissey the-nerdery-dot-info

Is Rust's MD5 Slow? Heck no!

Today I came across this post on the Rust subreddit. Basically it is comparing two MD5 Miners written in Python and Rust. The miner is written for a code challenge called Advent of Code.

To be honest, speed is one of the things I love about Rust, so seeing Rust being blown away by Python (which I also like and use a lot) made me sad. I decided to make this a bit more fair for Rust so I made a very short piece of Rust code to complete this challenge FAST.

The challenge

The challenge, as written on the Advent of Code page is as follows:

You are given a key, for example abcdef.
You are looking for a string that is made by taking the MD5 of this key plus a number. This hash has to start with 5 leading zeros. (Like abcdef609043)

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	/*
	Plugin Name: Your Shipping plugin
	Plugin URI: http://woothemes.com/woocommerce
	Description: Your shipping method plugin
	Version: 1.0.0
	Author: WooThemes
	Author URI: http://woothemes.com
	*/

	// Don't copy this opening PHP tag if your file already has one. That breaks things.
	<?php

	function marce_slider_before_storefront_content () {
	// If the template is not the homepage (template-homepage.php), don't display.
	if ( ! is_page_template( 'template-homepage.php' ) ) {
	return false;
	}
	// If it is the homepage, add this meta slider shortcode
	echo do_shortcode( '[metaslider id=586]');

	add_action( 'init', 'jk_remove_storefront_header_search' );
	function jk_remove_storefront_header_search() {
	remove_action( 'storefront_header', 'storefront_product_search', 40 );
	}