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Re:Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile... by acdha on Thursday November 06, 2014 @09:48AM (#8567181)
Do you believe it's reasonable to assume that AES performance will remain constant over the same 5-7 year timeframe? That's at least a couple of hardware generations for an improvement they could make in the current generation if there was a market for it.
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Re:Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile... by pbsd on Saturday November 08, 2014 @02:03PM (#8577814)
There is certainly room for improvement, but I don't see an 16x speedup happening on a 5-year horizon using the current AES-NI instruction set.
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