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Message-ID: <20120723102812.GA25092@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:28:12 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Atom: bf P1 asm results

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:11:07PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> Checking vanilla gcc and reporting upstream might take a while. During
> the last weeks I neglected other duties, so I'll have to spend time to
> make up for that.

OK, I am not seriously suggesting that you do this now.  You do have
other things to spend your time on.

> BTW: gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51017 doesn't show any
> progress for half a year.
> Status: UNCONFIRMED
> This certainly encourages bug reports.

Performance regressions are very difficult to fix (especially without
causing potentially worse performance regressions for other code), so
this is not surprising.  They could update the Status, but that's all.

Alexander

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