Comments on Replacing C

[Frank Nicholas]

On Jan 8, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> context.  Is the extra hardware one per chip, or one per CPU?
> 

If “extra hardware” refers to AES or CBC type encryption, it is a per core thing.  The crypto hardware is extra instructions supported by the CPU (core).  With hyper threading, I would have no idea if two threads involving these instructions on the same core would impact performance.  This interests me….  I’ll do some poking at AMD & Intel and get back to the list!

Thanks,
Frank