Hello Niels,
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 07:26:46PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> > With the new 2-way or 3-way functions, performance of the single-block
> > functions isn't that critical, so deletion may be ok even if it causes
> > some small regression on some processors (e.g., single-block chacha
ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
> For processors that can issue two instructions per cycle, and with
> shorter latency, scalar code (i.e., code using only the general purpose
> 32-bit registers) could get more or less the same throughput. The scalar
> code also gets the advantage that
ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
> I've done a benchmark run of nettle-3.6 on the GMP "nanot2" system, with
> a Cortex-A9 processor. The installed compiler is gcc-5.4 (a few years
> old).
I choose Cortex-A9 for this test in attempt to reproduce my old numbers.
Even if it's probably not
