On Jun 27, 2011 4:15 PM, "David Magda" <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: > The (Ultra)SPARC T-series processors do, but to a certain extent it goes > against a CPU manufacturers best (financial) interest to provide this: > crypto is very CPU intensive using 'regular' instructions, so if you need > to do a lot of it, it would force you to purchase a manufacturer's > top-of-the-line CPUs, and to have as many sockets as you can to handle a > load (and presumably you need to do "useful" work besides just > en/decrypting traffic).
I hope no CPU vendor thinks about the economics of chip making that way. I actually doubt any do. Nico --
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