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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:25:25 -0300
From: Claudio André <claudioandre.br@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CUDA & OpenCL status

I'm using rotate now, no performance gain too.

Claudio.

Em 22-03-2012 00:12, Solar Designer escreveu:
> Lukas, Milen -
>
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 08:37:58AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>> I've also tried:
>>
>> #define ROTATE_LEFT(x, s) rotate((x), (uint32_t)(s))
>>
>> which works, but does not obviously improve performance here.
> This is puzzling.  Perhaps there's some other bottleneck that we're
> bumping into, making further micro-optimizations irrelevant until we
> deal with that other issue.
>
> Apparently, rotate() should be as good as amd_bitalign() now, but we may
> try the latter as well anyway:
>
> http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/158497
>
> Also relevant is this posting by Milen:
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/02/01/2
>
> Milen - any additional info on that "fused SHL+ADD instruction" on
> Nvidia and its use for MD5 and the like?  I don't immediately see how
> such an instruction would be usable there because we actually need
> rotate+ADD.
>
> Alexander

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