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Message-ID: <64dcf2c32f6da1cca2863808e0e87a8c@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:24:15 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: md5cryptsse()'s uses of length[]
On 2012-06-26 05:41, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:13:13AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>> In sse-intrinsics.c: md5cryptsse(), there's a loop that assigns password
>> lengths to length[i], then uses length[i] many times. Wouldn't it be
>> better to use an int variable local to that loop instead, and only at
>> the end of each loop iteration store the value into length[i]?
>
> Attached is a patch that fixes this. No measurable performance
> difference from that (since it's out of the 1000 iterations loop).
> However, while at it I also spotted the integer division in dispatch()
> (I am surprised: even the old non-vectorized code avoided that), which I
> patched out for a 0.5% speedup here.
>
> We might want to regenerate and re-benchmark icc's .S files now.
Ouch, and my icc is not working right now. Simon, could you pull
magnum-jumbo, do a "make intrinsics" and post the resulting files?
magnum
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