crypto/bn/bn_lcl.h for further details. It should be noted that for
the moment of this writing the code was tested only on Alpha. If
compiled with DEC C the C implementation exhibits 12% performance
improvement over the crypto/bn/asm/alpha.s (on EV56 box running
AlphaLinux). GNU C is (unfortunately) 8% behind the assembler
implementation. But it's OpenVMS Alpha users who *may* benefit most
as 'apps/openssl speed rsa' exhibits 6 (six) times performance
improvement over the original VMS bignum implementation. Where "*may*"
means "as soon as code is enabled though #define SIXTY_FOUR_BIT and
crypto/bn/asm/vms.mar is skipped."
the remainder left in %edx. Here is the resulting performance improvement
matrix (improvement as a result of this *and* previous tune-up committed
two days ago). The results were obtained by profiling the "div" part of
the crypto/bn/bnspeed.c.
CPU BN_div bn_div_words overall comment
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PII +16% accumulated by +2-3% PII multiplies damn fast! Taking
inlining multiplication out of the loop
didn't make too much difference.
Eliminating of the multiplication
involved in remainder calculation
is the major factor.
Pentium +45% accumulated by +7-9% mull isn't that fast and replacing
inlining multiplications with additions in
the loop has more visible effect:-)
MIPS +75% +12% +20-25% In addition to the taking mults
R10000 out of the loop (giving 12% in the
asm/mips3.s) three mults were
eliminated in BN_div.
Alpha +30% +50% +10-15% Same as above. But remember that
EV4 bn_div_words is a C implementation.
It takes 4 Alpha mults in C to do
the same thing as 1 MIPS mult in
assembler does. So the effect (50%)
is more impressive. But not the
overall one... Well, if Alpha
bn_mul_add would be implemented
in assembler overall improvement
would be closer to MIPS...
