Chris Zimman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Bodo Moeller:
>> [...] maybe in an ideal world it'd be possible to request that slow
>> software bignum operations be "non-blocking" too in the sense that
>> after doing some of their work they'd return control to the
>> top-level, which then can handle other threads and continue the
>> slow operation later. [...]
> I'd say this is a lot more possible than in an 'ideal world' -- RSA
> provides this sort of capability in BSAFE via surrender context. It's
> definitely not impossible to do. It just takes some dilligence and
> forethought when designing things.
I was just talking about OpenSSL, of course this kind of thing is done
elsewhere (or co-operative multitasking wouldn't exist).
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