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Simple benchmark with openssl-3.0.0-5.el9.x86_64

With custom EVP_MD cache:
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from hashlib import md5" "md5(b'12345678', usedforsecurity=False).digest()"500000 loops, best of 5: 520 nsec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from hashlib import sha512" "sha512(b'12345678', usedforsecurity=False).digest()"
500000 loops, best of 5: 730 nsec per loop

Without EVP_MD cache:
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from hashlib import md5" "md5(b'', usedforsecurity=False).digest()"
500000 loops, best of 5: 807 nsec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from hashlib import sha512" "sha512(b'12345678', usedforsecurity=False).digest()"
200000 loops, best of 5: 1.03 usec per loop