Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
>> < I'd say... our priority (or our message) should be more on the >> "hard fun" items. >> >>> What do you think? >>> I think that children will do what they consider fun, regardless of our priorities or "message". It largely doesn't matter which particular activities are "emph

Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-22 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
SJ, > < I'd say... our priority (or our message) should be more on the > "hard fun" items. > > > > What do you think? > > I largely agree. I would put persistent collaboration on a par with > hard fun; but then I think multiplayer notepad is among the greatest > games ever. And certainly

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 9/22/07, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a crypto++ library: > All in all, include in speed testing. I'm aware of this library. Really, what I'd like now is a volunteer to do the speed tests. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 9/22/07, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't seem terribly committed to any particular hash. > How about picking one that the Geode is especially good at? > You have AES acceleration hardware, and there are several > ways to turn a block cipher like AES into a hash. This is ac

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread NoiseEHC
There is a crypto++ library: hash functions SHA-1 , SHA-2 (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512), Tiger , WHIRLPOOL , RIPEM

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 9/22/07, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some timing for libtomcrypt with various compilation options. All times > are for hashing 1MiB of data from memory, timed under Open Firmware with > interrupts disabled. [...] > So, with this code, the slow version does sha256 at about 4 MiB/s

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Cahalan
C. Scott Ananian writes: > We make currently make heavy use of hashing in our upgrade & > verification infrastructure. I'd like to find the fastest possible > implementation of the SHA-256 and/or RIPEMD-160 algorithms. If it has to be SHA-256 or RIPEMD-160, I don't think you'll be finding any mi

Re: Performance tuning for the XO

2007-09-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > We make currently make heavy use of hashing in our upgrade & > verification infrastructure. I'd like to find the fastest possible > implementation of the SHA-256 and/or RIPEMD-160 algorithms. Can > anyone offer me advice on the proper compilation options and > strategies