md5-crypto

md5 hashing function that utilizes node crypto module instead of implementing the algorithm like other available npm modules.

Why?

• native solutions are (almost) always faster
• less code to include and parse at startup = faster startup

Benchmark:

I've written (and included with source code) simple benchmark that compares performance of this module to most popular npm md5-hashing module, called md5, here are the results:

`md5` module takes 491 ms to run 100000 times on short string
`md5-crypto` module takes 163 ms to run 100000 times (328 ms and 3.01 times better) on short string

`md5` module takes 796 ms to run 100 times on long string (100k bytes)
`md5-crypto` module takes 29 ms to run 100 times (767 ms and 27.45 times better) on long string (100k bytes)

`md5` module takes 1157 ms to run 100 times on long string (100k bytes, random-same-character string each time)
`md5-crypto` module takes 408 ms to run 100 times (749 ms and 2.84 times better) on long string (100k bytes, random-same-character string each time)

If you belive these examples are misleading please submit a PR with more advanced examples.

Why not?

• it won't work in browser (for universal/isomorphic rendering you can still conditionally include this on server and something else in browser)

License

MIT