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Message-ID: <20150805012140.GA776@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 04:21:40 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CUDA support

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:24:48PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> Most of our CUDA formats are rather useless and we have no active 
> maintainer for any of them nor for the core CUDA stuff. Unless some 
> active maintainer(s) show up, we'll eventually need to drop the CUDA 
> support.
> 
> We're not there yet, but from now on bleeding-edge Jumbo defaults to not 
> build for CUDA (hint: nvidia can use OpenCL too). The default until now 
> was to enable CUDA if found.
> 
> To build with CUDA, use "./configure --enable-cuda" from now on.

This sounds just right to me.  Maybe we should have ./configure itself
print the hint about OpenCL being the right choice even for NVIDIA?

Alexander

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