While it is already mentioned on the `items` attributes of the structs, it is
interesting to comment in every method potentially invalidating pointers to items
that they may do so.
* std.crypto.onetimeauth.ghash: faster GHASH on modern CPUs
Carryless multiplication was slow on older Intel CPUs, justifying
the need for using Karatsuba multiplication.
This is not the case any more; using 4 multiplications to multiply
two 128-bit numbers is actually faster than 3 multiplications +
shifts and additions.
This is also true on aarch64.
Keep using Karatsuba only when targeting x86 (granted, this is a bit
of a brutal shortcut, we should really list all the CPU models that
had a slow clmul instruction).
Also remove useless agg_2 treshold and restore the ability to
precompute only H and H^2 in ReleaseSmall.
Finally, avoid using u256. Using 128-bit registers is actually faster.
* Use a switch, add some comments
perf_event_attr.type needs to take a runtime defined value to enable
dynamic PMU:s, such as kprobe and uprobe. This value can exceed
predefined values defined in the linux headers.
reference: perf_event_open(2) man page
In the process of 'remaining blocks',
the length of processed message can be from 1 to 79.
The value of 'n-1' is ranged from 0 to 3.
So, st.hx[i] must be initialized at least from st.hx[0] to st.hx[3]
* Export invalidFmtErr
To allow consistent use of "invalid format string" compile error
response for badly formatted format strings.
See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/13489#issuecomment-1311759340.
* Replace format compile errors with invalidFmtErr
- Provides more consistent compile errors.
- Gives user info about the type of the badly formated value.
* Rename invalidFmtErr as invalidFmtError
For consistency. Zig seems to use “Error” more often than “Err”.
* std: add invalid format string checks to remaining custom formatters
* pass reference-trace to comp when building build file; fix checkobjectstep
These constants were read as a block count in initForBlockCount()
but at the same time, as a size in update().
The unit could be blocks or bytes, but we should use the same one
everywhere.
So, use blocks as intended.
Fixes#13506
- the meaning of packed structs changed in zig 0.10. adjust accordingly.
Use "extern struct" for the cases that directly map to C structs.
- Add new type info kinds, like enum64 and DeclTag
- change the Type enum to use the canonical names from libbpf.
This is more predictable when comparing with external BPF
documentation (than invented synonyms that need to be guessed)
* std.crypto: make ghash faster, esp. for small messages
Aggregated reduction requires 5 additional multiplications (to
precompute the powers of H), in order to save 2 multiplications
per batch.
So, only use large batches when it's actually interesting to do so.
For the last blocks, reuse the precomputations in order to perform
a single reduction.
Also, even in .ReleaseSmall, allow 2-block aggregation.
The speedup is worth it, and the code increase is reasonable.
And in .ReleaseFast, bump the upper batch size up to 16.
Leverage comptime by the way instead of duplicating code.
std/crypto/benchmark.zig on Apple M1:
Zig 0.10.0: 2769 MiB/s
Before: 6014 MiB/s
After: 7334 MiB/s
Normalize function names by the way.
* Change clmul() to accept the half to be processed
This avoids a bunch of truncate() calls.
* Add more ghash tests to check all code paths
* crypto.core.aes: process 6 block in parallel instead of 8 on aarch64
At least on Apple Silicon, this is slightly faster than 8 blocks.
* AES: add parallel blocks for tigerlake, rocketlake, alderlake, zen3
and reimplement shuffle in terms of it. This allows the caller to specify an index type of a fixed bit width, allowing results to be independent usize.
...instead of hard-coding it to 20.
- This is consistent with the ChaCha implementation
- NaCl and libsodium, that this API is designed to interop with,
also support 8 and 12 round variants. The 12 round variant, in
particular, provides the same security level as the 20 round variant,
but is obviously faster.
- scrypt currently uses its own non optimized version of Salsa, just
because it use 8 rounds instead of 20. This will help remove code
duplication.
No behavior nor public API changes. The Salsa20 and XSalsa20 still
represent the 20-round variant.
PR #13101 recently renamed the "i386" architecture to "x86", and it
seems the specific CPU model got swept up in that. "x86" is an umbrella
term that describes a family of CPUs, and the "i386" is the oldest
supported model under that umbrella.
