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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hardening [Perl's] hash function further

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:55:39PM +0100, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> On 19/11/2013 23:39, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > But many systems-on-chips have crypto engines that can be used for
> > this purpose. See
> > http://www.marvell.com/application-processors/armada-500/ to cite just
> > one example. 
> Using SoC-specific hardware accelerators is probably way out-of-scope
> here :-)

I also think that hashtable keys are usualy too small by several
magnitudes to benefit from it. The cost of setting up the hardware
crypto engine from userspace will be way higher than hashing e.g. 64
byte yourself. I would expect that anything below page size at least
won't be faster in hardware but that is just a guess.

MfG
	Goswin