Re: [PATCH] AES for CryptoAPI - i586-optimized

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> > 
> > Due to the recent discussion about the asm-optimized version of AES which is
> > included in loop-AES, I'd like to point out that I've ported this
> > implementation - Dr. Brian Gladman's btw. - to CryptoAPI a long time ago.
> 
> Cool, that means we just need to hash out the framework for optimized
> implementations now..

It's not cool. Pentium Classic tuning is quite useless for PPro+
The Pentium Classic had a quite weird pipeline and code optimized
for it tends to be suboptimal for more modern designs.

I didn't benchmark, but I suspect the C version compiled with a good compiler
for the correct CPU is faster than that on a modern CPU.

-Andi