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Message-ID: <db27d954d19ec71227a20baf5855fcbb@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:08:47 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sunmd5

On 2012-08-04 23:58, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:49:52PM +0200, magnum wrote:
>> On 2012-08-04 23:38, Solar Designer wrote:
>>> Here's an obvious optimization, removing the modulo division.
>>>
>>> Benchmarking: SunMD5 [128/128 XOP intrinsics 8x x1024]... DONE
>>> Raw:    541 c/s real, 541 c/s virtual
>>>
>>> or even (best of several invocations):
>>>
>>> Benchmarking: SunMD5 [128/128 XOP intrinsics 8x x1024]... DONE
>>> Raw:    544 c/s real, 544 c/s virtual
>>
>> Committed, thanks. On my laptop it made a more significant boost, almost 4%.
> 
> Thanks.  I think you misread the above.  It's +7.5% here (506 to 544).

I realised that right after posting :)

> I also tried eliminating the sprintf(), but this only hurt performance.
> Apparently, it is not called that frequently, whereas my changes affected
> register allocation in the inner loop or something.  (Not submitting.)

I'll run Valgrind again. There must be something more to do, I suppose
we are still at 15-20% "waste" in crypt_all().

I think sapG was somewhat comparable to this. I'll revisit that format
and see how it looks in Valgrind.

magnum

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