[geeks] YAY!

[Dave McGuire]

On July 19, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Well, the one thing that I know the PC is genuinely better at than
> many platforms is bit rotations.  IE, crypto.  So buy a nice machine
> (say a PReP machine), move the graphics card, excess RAM, and sound
> card to that,  and dedicate the PC as a crypto processor running
> openBSD.
> 
> Does any other platform have rotates?   To my understanding, SPARCS of
> any sort don't, and PPC chips don't.  Don't know about anything else
> though. 

  Huh?  I will have to dig out my PPC book and check on this.  From a
dusty memory I seem to recall that one of the reasons PPC machines do
so well at distributed.net's RC5 stuff is due to rotate instructions.

         -Dave

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