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Message-Id: <DE5AA8CA-2CB1-4057-913B-AE317A799D73@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:06:14 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] JtR SIMD support enhancements


> On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:35:44PM +0800, Lei Zhang wrote:
>> I'm not sure of the "interleave factors". Could you be more specific?
> 
> Do you understand the concept of instruction interleaving?
> Why does it help?
> When to increase the amount of interleaving, and when to stop doing that?
> Can too much interleaving reduce performance, and why?

Currently I don't understand what is instruction interleaving. I'll take some time studying this topic before experimenting with it.


Thanks,
Lei

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