18 Aug
1993
18 Aug
'93
9:20 p.m.
why doesn't this impress me? i'll tell you why. with o a stock version of des (dennis ferguson's), which is written in c, and not optimized for any particular chip or vector hardware o a no-name 50 Mhz 486, which you can buy for under $1,000 at fry's o netbsd, a freely available general purpose operating system i have measured 29,000 des crypts per second. now give me a "1,024 node" machine made of of these -- admittedly unwieldy, but no doubt a hell of a lot cheaper than a 1,024 node CM/5 (and a hell of a lot more useful, imho) -- and i can run at three times the "world record" rate. peter, inveterate iconoclast