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Message-ID: <20150506185822.GA8201@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 21:58:22 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [Johnny] Task 1.4.2 fork and OpenMP

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:09:09PM -0400, Mathieu Laprise wrote:
> Hey guys OpenMP done !
> 
> If the spin box is set as "default" (which is also the default value of the
> spin box), it's not gonna set OMP_NUM_THREAD variable and john will select
> it based on the number of processors. Otherwise, it's gonna set it to the
> specified number in the process environnement like Shinnok said. See
> screenshot below
> http://i.imgur.com/0ryNFiE.png

This looks good for now.

I hope you mean OMP_NUM_THREADS (plural), not OMP_NUM_THREAD (singular).

> Solar said :
> 
> > There are a few more OpenMP environment variables that sometimes may be
> > set to tune performance.  Maybe there should be a general env var input
> > field, where multiple name=value pairs could be input.  I don't expect a
> > typical user of Johnny to actually know this stuff, but there might be
> > cases where e.g. one of us on john-users recommends a specific setting
> > to a user.
> 
> Sure, I can add that if you want.

Feel free to add this now or later.

BTW, can we please consistently use American English by default?
So s/behaviour/behavior/g

Thanks,

Alexander

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