From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: Berke Durak <berke@altern.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:15:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020207021527.C577@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020205000643.A31440@gogol.zorgol>; from berke@altern.org on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 00:06:43 +0100
On 2002.02.05 00:06 Berke Durak wrote:
> I.e. better support for int32's. I understand that the Caml team does
> not want people to use int32's (or int64's) by default. However a lot
> of coding/crypto stuff, deserving to be ported to Caml, works with
> 32-bit ints and it would be good to be able to use them at full speed.
>
> For example, the MD5 routine used in Digest.string could be efficiently
> rewritten in Caml.
I have coded Blowfish and DES in Caml, and optimizing them is painful.
I would not do it again. Interestingly, Blowfish is faster if it uses
only int and not int32, although twice as many int operations are
needed than int32 operations.
Gerd
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 23:06 Berke Durak
2002-02-06 18:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-02-06 20:08 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-02-06 20:43 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2002-02-06 22:40 ` Chris Hecker
2002-02-07 1:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-02-07 3:05 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-07 3:25 ` Eric C. Cooper
2002-02-07 13:49 ` Thorsten Ohl
2002-02-07 13:55 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-02-07 16:32 ` [Caml-list] More syntax: _ in numbers, backquote infix op's Christian Lindig
2002-02-06 21:02 ` [Caml-list] integer types and their literals james woodyatt
2002-02-06 21:36 ` [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate Berke Durak
2002-02-07 1:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
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