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diff --git a/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README b/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README deleted file mode 100644 index b0f3a68a..00000000 --- a/openssl/crypto/bn/asm/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -<OBSOLETE> - -All assember in this directory are just version of the file -crypto/bn/bn_asm.c. - -Quite a few of these files are just the assember 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 assember 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 assember (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 assember gives access to the 128 bit result and -a 2 times speedup :-). - -There are 3 versions of assember 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). - -</OBSOLETE> |