From 4cd453d742c14bc663f284124b106f53992c76d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: miod <> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:45 +0000 Subject: Remove horribly old and outdated `documentation' for the assembly code. --- src/lib/libcrypto/bn/asm/README | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/lib/libcrypto/bn/asm/README (limited to 'src/lib/libcrypto/bn') diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/asm/README b/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/asm/README deleted file mode 100644 index 323d1a06b9..0000000000 --- a/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/asm/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ - - -All assembler in this directory are just version of the file -crypto/bn/bn_asm.c. - -Quite a few of these files are just the assembler output from gcc since on -quite a few machines they are 2 times faster than the system compiler. - -For the x86, I have hand written assembler because of the bad job all -compilers seem to do on it. This normally gives a 2 time speed up in the RSA -routines. - -For the DEC alpha, I also hand wrote the assembler (except the division which -is just the output from the C compiler pasted on the end of the file). -On the 2 alpha C compilers I had access to, it was not possible to do -64b x 64b -> 128b calculations (both long and the long long data types -were 64 bits). So the hand assembler gives access to the 128 bit result and -a 2 times speedup :-). - -There are 3 versions of assembler for the HP PA-RISC. - -pa-risc.s is the origional one which works fine and generated using gcc :-) - -pa-risc2W.s and pa-risc2.s are 64 and 32-bit PA-RISC 2.0 implementations -by Chris Ruemmler from HP (with some help from the HP C compiler). - - -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb