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experiments with optimizing sha256 on a 64-bit intel cpu

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2013-07-27 · latest 2013-07-28

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  1. …of the extra ops makes a difference. Would help to see the assembly for the whole function. [1] https://github.com/tangentstorm/coinops/blob/junkops/sha256_...
  2. …source file in question is in Pascal, and the author suggested downloading Free Pascal to test it. https://github.com/tangentstorm/coinops/blob/junkops/sha256_...
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    Why would useless MOV instructions speed up a tight loop in x86_64 assembly?
    story by nkurz · 2013-07-27 · 41 comments