On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 2:03 PM Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I may be mistaken, but I believe 64-bit poly multiplies are available.
> > Or they are available on Aarch64 with Crypto extensions.
>
> I'm looking in the Arm Instruction Set Reference Guide, labeled version
> 1.0, 2018.
>
> It includes a section on cryptographic instructions, but that's aes,
> sha1 and sha256, no carry-less multiplication.
>
> But I may well be missing something, I'm not really familiar with
> Aarch64.
>
> > I'm not aware of poly multiplies on other ARM arches, like ARMv6 or
> > ARMv7 with NEON.
>
> I think the "p8" SIMD datatype and vmull.p8 have been part of the Neon
> instruction set for a long time, at least since I wrote my first ARM
> code back in 2013. It's just a bit annoyning that one needs so many of
> them to do a wide multiply.

Oh, you're right. There is a vmull for NEON.

According to an early NEON programming guide from ARM
(https://static.docs.arm.com/den0018/a/DEN0018A_neon_programmers_guide_en.pdf),
the widest you can perform is P16 poly multiply.

Jeff
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