Bhima, Quoting Bhima Pandava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Interesting. > > I had assumed that hardware accelerators kept more or less the same > pace of improvement as general purpose CPUs. Can you point to any > literature that shows that it doesn't? CPU's keep getting faster and crypto accelerators keep getting faster. But from what I can tell, due to the bus between them, you can be taking two steps forward and then one step back. The amazing AES performance of the VIA CPU's seem to show a better way. Shane ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au