Naive question: for low-level primitives like crypto that require speed,
when do you/we prefer native implementation (in C at the libOS level) vs
oCaml implementation?

regards,

Arnaud


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Hannes Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> On 01/08/2016 11:19, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> > I'd like to use `Bcrypt` from the `safepass` opam module in passe[0].
> > There is sadly no `safepass-xen` package, and trying to just use
> > `safepass` results in link errors:
>
> I wonder whether it'd be more than a day of work to implement bcrypt
> directly in OCaml.  Would for sure safe from linking trouble (and be
> automatically memory safe).  An initial version might be 50% or 90% of
> the speed of the pure C variant, but does this really matter for bcrypt?
>
>
> hannes
>
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