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diff --git a/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README b/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b0f3a68a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<OBSOLETE> + +All assember in this directory are just version of the file +crypto/bn/bn_asm.c. + +Quite a few of these files are just the assember output from gcc since on +quite a few machines they are 2 times faster than the system compiler. + +For the x86, I have hand written assember because of the bad job all +compilers seem to do on it. This normally gives a 2 time speed up in the RSA +routines. + +For the DEC alpha, I also hand wrote the assember (except the division which +is just the output from the C compiler pasted on the end of the file). +On the 2 alpha C compilers I had access to, it was not possible to do +64b x 64b -> 128b calculations (both long and the long long data types +were 64 bits). So the hand assember gives access to the 128 bit result and +a 2 times speedup :-). + +There are 3 versions of assember for the HP PA-RISC. + +pa-risc.s is the origional one which works fine and generated using gcc :-) + +pa-risc2W.s and pa-risc2.s are 64 and 32-bit PA-RISC 2.0 implementations +by Chris Ruemmler from HP (with some help from the HP C compiler). + +</OBSOLETE> |