On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > And "with enough registers" includes ARM and MIPS, right? So the only > real problem is 32-bit x86, and you're right, at that point, only > people who might care are people who are using a space-radiation > hardened 386 --- and they're not likely to be doing high throughput > TCP connections. :-)
Plus the benchmark was bogus anyway, and when I built a more specific harness -- actually comparing the TCP sequence number functions -- SipHash was faster than MD5, even on register starved x86. So I think we're fine and this chapter of the discussion can come to a close, in order to move on to more interesting things.