Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 7-Aug-94 IDEA vs DES by Phil Karn@unix.ka9q.ampr
Anybody know the speed of the integer multiply instruction on the various PowerPC chips? Along with modular exponentiation and vocoders, which also do a lot of multiplies, it looks like fast multiplication is becoming rather important in secure communications.
PowerPC integer performance is rather impressive, i.e. faster than Pentium by a bit. One craveat, tho, Apple says "No!" to programming in assembly, and I doubt that IBM is all this happy about it either. My guess is that MacOS is approaching the Unix "distribute source, 'cause you're gonna have to do lots of re-compiles" type of thing. Just a guess, though. Anyway, there is one assembly interpreter out for PowerMacs, I don't know about the IBM PowerPCs, though. Back to lurking, jer darklord@cmu.edu | "it's not a matter of rights / it's just a matter of war finger me for my | don't have a reason to fight / they never had one before" Geek Code and | -Ministry, "Hero" PGP public key | http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr25/jbde/