On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:29 pm, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:42:33PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:09 am, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > The port to Numerix was easy enough, and gained 10-30% performance on RSA > > operations on my test system; may be better on memory management scores > > as > > Well, Xavier claims a 50% speed improvement of the new bignum library > over the old one for athlon 64, pentium 4 and powerpc.
I'll be interested in seeing the numbers for cryptokit RSA ops with the new bignum; I think most of the speed gain in the Numerix port had to do with the Numerix powmod operation mentioned below. I didn't do anything special for speed's sake otherwise, although I was systematic about minimizing the number of temp variables needed. [snip] > Yeah sure. You don't even need to be a DD, just become a member of the > alioth project. OK. I'll ask Stefano to consider adding me as a Developer on pkg-ocaml-maint. [snip] > > I am open to other tools as well; I am new to OCaml and guessed that > > findlib was the most common way of setting up shared libraries, etc. > > Please correct me if that's incorrect. > > Well, i personnally prefer the good old manual way, but others disagree. Could you point me to a package that does it the manual way, and a program that uses the library installed by that package? I want to make sure I'm putting all the pieces in the right place. [snip] > > IMO it should wind up in libcryptokit-ocaml and libcryptokit-ocaml-dev. > > The upstream build doesn't seem to make shared libraries (which will be > > needed for libcryptokit-ocaml AIUI), so I will need to do some rework. > > (I'm working > > Well, the shared libraries are only really needed if there is a dll.so, > built from C stubs. I don't remember well if this is the case for > cryptokit or if it is a native ocaml library. cryptokit does have C portions and builds a dll.so (as a side effect of running ocamlmklib). As mentioned above, I'm not quite sure what to do with it, since cryptokit's "make install" target doesn't do anything with it. > > on the Numerix packages now, which will include libnumerix and > > libnumerix-dev (C interface) as well as libnumerix-ocaml and > > libnumerix-ocaml-dev. > > Ok, cool. These packages are getting close; I will have candidates as soon as the dll.so is added. > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Thanks, - Michael
