Re: hardware vs. john the ripper - fun

[Byron Sonne <blsonne () rogers com>]

> Are thoses specs right? Dual 1.4 g4's getting almost 17k cps? Is this right?
> Its almost 3x a 3.2ghz p4. I It would be interesting to see what a dual g5
> 2ghz would get if a asm core was written for it.

Especially since, as I understand it, the Gx/PPC line does 
honest-to-goodness real vector processing (is that the altivec stuff?) 
whereas the x86 arch only approximates it using the MMX instruction set, 
and not as well either. Not sure what kinda hassles would be added for 
assembly and ML in order to take advantage of the Mac CPUs special 
abilities.

I suppose that is why Macs are rather nicer at high end video and audio 
tasks but whether that same advantage could be applied to crypto I'm not 
sure. I would appreciate a good schooling on this, if anyone knows 
firsthand or has some good, relevant links.

If I ever get rich, my next, big treat will be a dual G5 running some 
kind of free 'nix.


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