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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 20:44:26 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] JtR SIMD support enhancements

On 2015-04-25 20:21, Solar Designer wrote:
> Speaking of OpenMP in particular, as you know it's inefficient for fast
> hashes, so for those I'd tune the interleave factors with -fork instead.

Since we currently can't have different interleaving factors for 
different formats using same primary hash function, I think it's most 
sensible to simply tune for md5rypt, wpapsk and so on. I have seen a few 
cases where raw-md5 and md5crypt had different best factor, but it was 
insignificant - and md5crypt is the arbitrator IMO.

For MD4 we might actually want to tune for raw-md4 or NT2 though, using 
fork like you say.

I guess Lei compiled with --disable-openmp-for-fast-formats, virtually 
all formats can do OpenMP now even though it's not always sensible. BTW 
even for fast formats I have a feeling we might want to compare 59 forks 
x 4 threads with simply 236 threads. Wouldn't that have better chance to 
run optimally? Though maybe you've already said that at some point and 
that's why I get this gut feeling :-)

magnum

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