> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:20:16PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> > Is there a demand out there for a Java port? It wouldn't be as
> fast as C or
> > ASM for most platforms, but for platforms with NO port at all,
> I think this
> > would be great.
>
> You may be surprised at just how fast a Java implementation could
> be. I did
> essentially the same thing for the distributed.net RC5-64 effort (see
> http://www.hewgill.com/rc5/). It turned out that the Java
> decryption routine,
> with a JIT compiler, could reach 25% of the speed of a hand
> optimized assembler
> decryption routine.
Well, my brother went ahead and got it coded and working okay. According to
his tests, for larger exponents it actually begins to approach the speeds of
the C port.
He's doing some work on it to optimize it now and promises to have it
multithreading in no time. Hmm. His initial timings were based on the
Ultra Sparc running MacLucasUNIX. For example, M(3217) was only 17% slower
with Java than with the C code.
Aaron
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