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Message-ID: <20060201132731.GA8063@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:27:31 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: best john optimized architecture?
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:31:11AM -0800, Arias Hung wrote:
> How much of an advantage does the powerpc G5 w/AltiVec
> have over the high end 32 bit amd or p4's out of curiousity?
Actually, I had mentioned this in John 1.7 release announcement, so you
could want to re-read that.
PowerPC G5 2.7 GHz does up to 1.6M c/s at Unix crypt(3), whereas the
fastest x86's do up to 1M c/s.
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Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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