Author: Luc The PerverseLuc The Perverse
Date: Nov 26, 2006 01:45
> Felix Rawlings wrote:
>>> Um? No. You can't easily multi-thread MD5 and expect performance
>>> [especially since it's basically 64 rounds of very serial operations].
>>
>> So it would yield the same performance on a single CPU machine?
>
> I don't see why not. Discounting any other processes running that is.
>
> What makes you think you can multi-thread MD5?
There is probably someway to take advantage of another core - but I doubt it
would be trivial. Perhaps I am completely wrong - I don't know enough about
MD5
Look at the big money Intel is putting into R&D and competitions to make
seemingly iterative processes run faster on multiple cores.
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LTP
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