Re: [rc4-amd64] RC4 optimized for AMD64

[Marc Bevand]

dean gaudet wrote:
| 
| [...]
| you're asking about spending one byte?  one byte extra for code which 
| could perform better on more CPUs?

Guys, this does not matter _for now_, because AFAIK nobody has
benchmarked this code on an EM64T P4 CPU.

Obviously, if 'sub $1,X' is proved to be faster than 'dec' on the
Intel CPU, then I will change the code (since both instructions are
equivalent on AMD CPUs).

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Marc Bevand                          http://www.epita.fr/~bevand_m
Computer Science School EPITA - System, Network and Security Dept.
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