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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:56:08 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR on Power


> On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> Strangely, MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 become even slower. Currently there're some inefficient emulation for several intrinsics, notably int64 shift, which very likely slows down SHA512 here. I try to do some optimization and see how it goes.

With some optimization, the result gets better. 

OpenMP disabled this time:

[before]
Benchmarking: Raw-MD4 [MD4 32/64]... DONE
Raw:	3552K c/s real, 3588K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-MD5 [MD5 32/64]... DONE
Raw:	2784K c/s real, 2812K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA1 [SHA1 32/64]... DONE
Raw:	3661K c/s real, 3661K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA256 [SHA256 32/64 OpenSSL]... DONE
Raw:	2306K c/s real, 2330K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA512 [SHA512 32/64 OpenSSL]... DONE
Raw:	1868K c/s real, 1887K c/s virtual

[after]
Benchmarking: Raw-MD4 [MD4 128/128 AltiVec 4x]... DONE
Raw:	10755K c/s real, 10649K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-MD5 [MD5 128/128 AltiVec 4x]... DONE
Raw:	9073K c/s real, 9258K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA1 [SHA1 128/128 AltiVec 4x]... DONE
Raw:	7964K c/s real, 8127K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA256 [SHA256 128/128 AltiVec 4x]... DONE
Raw:	5849K c/s real, 5908K c/s virtual

Benchmarking: Raw-SHA512 [SHA512 128/128 AltiVec 2x]... DONE
Raw:	2711K c/s real, 2711K c/s virtual


Speedup of each format:
-----------
MD4	3.0
MD5	3.3
SHA1	2.2
SHA256	2.5
SHA512	1.4
-----------

I'll take a closer look at AltiVec's manual and see if I can squeeze a little more performance out of it.

Lei


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