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authorlloyd <[email protected]>2011-03-13 01:56:14 +0000
committerlloyd <[email protected]>2011-03-13 01:56:14 +0000
commit39a0072fe3005212035218efed8b39201fa3bc84 (patch)
treef5b585aab41291700ce87923d9d083fcf4d2658b /doc/log.txt
parent41fa68ddc6d93b7a8bc07d3cad7af2535fb89d09 (diff)
Use the same mesasge expansion trick in SHA-512. Performance on
an i7-860 goes from 197 MiB/s to 256 - a 30% improvement!
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* 1.9.15-dev, ????-??-??
- - Modify how message expansion is done in SHA-256, leading to a 10%
- speedup on x86-64.
+ - Modify how message expansion is done in SHA-256 and SHA-512,
+ leading (on x86-64) to a 10% speedup in SHA-256 and a 30% speedup
+ in SHA-512.
- Pipe will delete empty output queues as soon as they are no longer
needed, even if earlier messages still have data unread.
- Avoid reading the SPARC %tick register on OpenBSD, as unlike Linux