Re: about powerpc version of in{,4}_cksum

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

At 11:07 AM 7/30/2002, Matt Thomas wrote:
> Well, for the G4 case I plan on getting a AltiVec implemention
> of in_cksum working shortly.

Well, I've written a such a beast and it tends to be 3 times
as fast as either the netinet or the powerpc version.  The cross
over point where AltiVec is faster seems to be about 32 bytes.

I have a few more things to clean up but it's looking very
promising.  I hope to check it in in a few days.

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