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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:36:21 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "group work size"

On 2012-06-24 21:24, Solar Designer wrote:
> magnum, Lukas, Claudio -
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 03:46:42PM -0300, Claudio Andr?? wrote:
>> At this moment we are using (and my vote is to keep them):
>> - Local work size (LWS) and global work size (GWS).
>>
>> LWS = work group size
>> GWS = keys per crypt (recently changed)

I prefer to call them local work-size and global work-size. Actually, 
global work-size == keys per crypt for non-vectorized formats only. For 
a vectorized format it will normally be GWS == keys_per_crypt/4

> It'd be nice to have this corrected today, before we release this stuff
> as part of a -jumbo version for the first time.

I agree. I can do it in a couple of hours unless someone beats be to it.

magnum

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