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- From: rthomas@pandora (Robert Thomas (extusr Telecom PLUS))
- Subject: Re: UFC-Crypt
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.110201.21923@csu.edu.au>
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- References: <JWINSTEA.92Dec15190013@fenris.claremont.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:02:01 GMT
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- Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec14.054309.10224@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) writes:
- [re UFC speeds under Linux]
- : crypt: 312.7 crypts/sec
- : ufccrypt: 281.9 crypt/sec
- :
- : I am wondering why this is the case? Under the Sun and RS6000,
- : the UFC-crypt ran much faster. I'm using 0.98pl4, gcc2.2.2d on a
- : 386/25 with no math coprocessor. Thanks,
- :
- : Well, for one thing, UFC-crypt is the native crypt under Linux.
- : Perhaps you were trying an older version when you grabbed your own to
- : compile?
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- I tried this a while ago out of curiosity, and the latest version (then)
- ran about the same as that.. Approx 20 or 30 cps SLOWER than crypt() - I
- would assume from this that Linus has tweaked UFC a tad to make it work
- a bit better on a 386.. And since my 386 has gone to the big tower case in
- the sky, I can't really check. It wouldn't be too hard to have a look at
- the source in the kernel and see what linus has done to it.
-
- Robert Thomas
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