Re: Request for benchmarking: x86 SHA1 code

[Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:46 AM, George Spelvin wrote:
> Could someone do some benchmarking for me?  Old (486/Pentium/P2/P3)
> machines are also interesting, but I'm optimizing for newer ones.

The new code appears to be marginally faster on a Pentium 3 Xeon:

Best of five runs:
586test: 11.658661 s
x86test: 11.209024 s

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 547.630
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1097.12
clflush size    : 32
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 547.630
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1095.37
clflush size    : 32
power management: