Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

On Thu, 30 May 2024 18:31:46 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

30 years ago you could say the same thing about encryption.

I don’t think newer CPUs have been optimized for encryption. Instead, we
see newer encryption algorithms (or ways of using them) that work better
on current CPUs. For example, when I was first learning about computer
encryption, I was told that CBC (“Cipher-Block Chaining”) mode was teh
hawtness, but nowadays it’s all about GFC (“Galois-Field Counter”) mode.