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Re: Rijndael in Assembler for x86?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Sep 25 12:06:24 2001
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:06:57 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Ian Goldberg <iang@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
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Ian Goldberg wrote something above this:
> [Moderator's note: The best DES implementations for i386s in assembler
> are several times faster than the best in C. I'm not sure about AES
> but I'd prefer to try and see. Perhaps it's a feature of DES's odd bit
> manipulation patterns, perhaps not. I have yet to see GCC produce code
> for almost anything that was just as fast as hand tuned assembler,
> though. --Perry]
By far the best assember I ever saw from a C compiler came from
Watcom's. I'm sure I remember hearing they open sourced it a while back.
Or did I dream that?
Cheers,
Ben.
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