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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:19:34 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Jumbo 1 release

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:44:01PM +0530, Sayantan Datta wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:26 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I say go for it! Perhaps consider cherry-picking first or both of
> > Sayantan's patches that are in the descrypt-test-amd branch though (as
> > mentioned in the descrypt issue now)
> 
> I was planning to create two separate paths(compile-time) for those two
> patches but it would require some testing regarding which device should
> follow which path. Since we don't have time, patch1 have 0 goto statements,
> hence more reliable but performance is somewhat poor.

Just how poor is it?  When running one or several --fork'ed processes?

> If you agree, I'll
> push a polished version of patch1 to bleeding-jumbo.

I think we should revisit this for -jumbo-2.  Not now.

Thanks!

Alexander

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