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Re: Rijndael in Assembler for x86?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Sat Sep 15 13:09:15 2001

From: jamesd@echeque.com
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
	iang@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:48:33 -0700
Message-ID: <3BA307D1.7507.522DAC@localhost>
In-reply-to: <9nt3uo$9ni$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>

    --
 Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >Because it is typically slower by many times than hand
> >tuned assembler.

On 14 Sep 2001, at 14:24, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> Are you sure?  For general code, that certainly hasn't been
> true in a long time; optimizing compilers nowadays can
> often do *better* then hand-coded assembler.

So say compiler writers.

I have not found this to be true.  Perhaps it is true of some
compilers and some people's assembler, and some code.

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