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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:02:15 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: SSE_PARA configuration
I've been experimenting with different values for the *_SSE_PARA defines
in arch.h and benchmarking raw-md4, raw-md5thick, md5 (crypt) and
raw-sha1. It turns out the optimum values are not only dependant on
compiler brand (which is what the current tests look at) but also exact
compiler version, whether we're building 32-bit or 64-bit and what exact
CPU we are building for - at least we need to distinguish intel from AMD.
We could add #if clauses and make targets until our fingers bleed but I
figure the real solution is to implement some sort of build-time tests
similar to what happens in "make generic", but that finds the best
*_SSE_PARA values for the specific platform.
Some platforms even have one best MD5_SSE_PARA setting for raw-md5 and
another for crypt-md5 and we need to pick one of them (probably the latter).
I'm not sure where to start so I'll do nothing for now. Anyone have ideas?
magnum
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