Thor 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.
One other question...
If the assembler version is optimized for Pentiums, does that mean that
it will not work well (or at all?) with AMD Athlons?
Thanks,
- Steve Weigand
(weigand@texas.net) Austin, Texas USA http://weigand.home.texas.net
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