nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
I've applied for a gcc compile farm account, and was approved Wednesday evening, but it seems my account and ssh key hasn't yet been propageted to the farm machines.
Got this set up now, and tested successfully on an Ultrasparc T5 (gcc202.fsffrance.org). Speedup of aes128 ctr was around 20%.
Speaking of sparc, recent chips have some crypto instructions which could be used to speedup aes considerably. I don't think I'm going to do any more sparc assembly hacking soon, but if someone else is interested in sparc performance, it might be a reasonably easy project with large speedup.
Current sparc aes code was written back in 2005, using the 32-bit sparcstation I had at home at the time, running Redhat linux. It was adapted for sparc64 by Henrik Grubbström, and essentially the same code is used for both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Regards, /Niels