On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Thor Dreier wrote:
> > > And why is there such a large discrepancy between cryptoapi's AES
> > > CPU time and loop-AES's AES CPU time? Context switching?
> > ...assembler versus C version... :-)
>
> Will there in the future come an assembler version (Pentium optimized, like
> the one in loop-AES) of the AES cipher to cryptoapi? This way the speed
> difference between loop-AES and cryptoapi would be minimized.
My impression is Linus and others are negative towards
increasing the architecture dependant code, and since
cryptoapi is aimed at eventually merging with the
mainstream kernel, I think Herbert has to keep that
in mind.
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