On 2/20/11 5:00 PM, John Clizbe wrote: > Personal thought: With the exception of some much older SPARC and Alpha*, > aren't > 64-bit platforms usually at the higher end of the performance charts? Why > speed > up there? If work is needed to speed up cryptographic functions, why not > concentrate on the cell phone/PDA end of the performance spectrum where it is > truly needed?
Some mobile devices use 64-bit processors. E.g., the Cell processor is 64-bit, as are some Atom variants. As more 64-bit processors get thrown into mobile devices, fast 64-bit code becomes more important. At present 64-bit procs are a substantial minority, but this will change quickly in the next few years. Apple seems pretty married to 32-bit ARM architecture for their mobile devices: the rest of the world seems pretty eager to shift. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
