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Message-ID: <4C45D903.3050000@banquise.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:12:35 +0200 From: bartavelle@...quise.net To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: On the usefulness of HT with compact SSE code I just ran a distributed cracking job with my crypt-MD5 implementation. I used X5650 chips with and without HT. The "with HT" cracking only ran for about 3 hours, while the other ran for 10 days, but I believe this is representative. I used markov mode (level 280) on a real password. My crypt-MD5 implementation was compiled with icc 11 and is quite fast. Here are the per core speeds : No HT : 30642.044 pwd/s HT : 16170.397 pwd/s -test : 34700.000 pwd/s HT gave a 5.5% speed increase. I believe this is due to the fact that the SSE code is quite effective. It might be possible to gain a bit by running 6 SSE tasks, and 6 "standard" tasks, but I didn't test this.
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