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Message-ID: <4c8778a9276e604a6c981258ba8a8026@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:09 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: left shift by 1 via ADD
On 03/21/2012 06:47 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> There are some rotates by 1 bit in SHA-1. When we don't have XOP, those
> involve left shifts by 1 bit (as well as right shifts and ORs). The
> left shifts may be replaced by ADDs, which are 1 byte shorter. (I am
> already using this trick in the DES key setup.) The attached patch
> reduces the sse-intrinsics.o .text size by 128 bytes here (relative to
> the version with MD5 optimizations). The reduced code size might result
> in a speedup on CPUs with caching of x86 instructions (as opposed to
> micro-ops) - on Atom maybe? On E5420, there's no difference.
Thanks. As far as I could tell, the sse-intrinsics.diff in your second
mail includes the patch from your first mail, right? So I committed that
one only. Just checking.
I also committed new pre-built intrinsics.
magnum
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