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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:55:18 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: X32 build, anyone?
I built latest snapshot OpenSSL for X32 (no separate patch needed) and
did some testing with bleeding-jumbo. Just like with core, there were no
build problems and all formats pass self-tests as well as Test Suite.
Benchmarks are generally barely faster than x86_64 - so a lot faster
than 32-bit. Real tests show the same.
On 2013-05-22 12:39, Solar Designer wrote:
> There may be slight performance gains when going from x86_64 to x32
> for:
>
> 1. Lots of fast hashes (thousands or millions) loaded for cracking,
> where the savings from smaller pointer size may reduce the working
> set size and thus result in more cache hits. However, this effect
> should be reduced in bleeding (as compared to 1.7.9-jumbo-7) due to
> us starting to use bitmaps (instead of hash tables), which are same
> size and speed regardless of pointer size.
I tried this, using various subsets of the 132M MD5 hashes from
InfoSecSouthwest2012_Ripe_Hashes.tgz. For some reason I saw very little
gain, if any, over an x86_64 build.
While a 32-bit build can't load files larger than 2 GB, the X32 build
was only limited by the 4 GB virtual memory size, so the latter could
load more hashes at once but not all 132M of them. BTW for these tests I
bumped PASSWORD_HASH_SIZE_FOR_LDR to max.
> 2. Bitslice DES in OpenMP-enabled builds, where DES_bs_all structs
> contain arrays of pointers, and together these structs don't fit in
> L1 data cache. (They could fit with fewer instances computed per
> thread, but then the OpenMP overhead would be higher.) Without
> OpenMP, we have just one DES_bs_all, which fits in L1 data cache, so
> there shouldn't be much difference.
I tested this briefly using 10 loaded hashes. The X32 build was not
faster than x86_64, in fact it was slower within a percent (just like
for non-OMP).
I'm done with this for now. I haven't seen any reason to go from x86_64
to X32 but it does work just fine.
magnum
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