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Clarify binary compatibility with HAL/Fujitsu SPARC64 family.
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# FPU is fully pipelined and can effectively emit 48 bit partial
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# product every cycle. Why not blended SPARC v9? One can argue that
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# making this module dependent on UltraSPARC VIS extension limits its
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# binary compatibility. Very well may be, but the simple fact is that
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# there is no known SPARC v9 implementation, which does not implement
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# VIS. Even brand new Fujitsu's SPARC64 V is equipped with VIS unit.
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# binary compatibility. Well yes, it does exclude SPARC64 prior-V(!)
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# implementations from compatibility matrix. But the rest, whole Sun
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# UltraSPARC family and brand new Fujitsu's SPARC64 V, all support
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# VIS extension instructions used in this module. This is considered
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# good enough to recommend HAL SPARC64 users [if any] to simply fall
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# down to no-asm configuration.
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# USI&II cores currently exhibit uniform 2x improvement [over pre-
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# bn_mul_mont codebase] for all key lengths and benchmarks. On USIII
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# is >3x faster than USI&II one, which is harder to match [but see
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# TODO list below]. It should also be noted that SPARC64 V features
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# out-of-order execution, which *might* mean that integer multiplier
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# is pipelined, which in turn *might* be impossible to match...
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# is pipelined, which in turn *might* be impossible to match... On
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# additional note, SPARC64 V implements FP Multiply-Add instruction,
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# which is perfectly usable in this context... In other words, as far
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# as HAL/Fujitsu SPARC64 family goes, talk to the author:-)
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# In 32-bit context the implementation implies following additional
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# limitations on input arguments:
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