In message <9408241340.AA03320@snark.imsi.com> perry@imsi.com writes:

I've been wondering recently, by the way, about what advantages doing some of this stuff on DSPs might have. DSPs are not magical chips, but they are optimized for a few tasks, including, typically, fast integer multiplies.

More precisely, fast integer inner products.

IDEA and modular exponentiation both require lots of fast integer multiplies. Would it make sense to use DSPs as co-processors to things like Pentiums to speed up these processes?

-- Jim Dixon