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DSPs (was: Nuclear Weapons Materials)
In message <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>
> I've been wondering recently, by the way, about what advantages doing
> some of this stuff on DSPs might have. DSPs are not magical chips, but
> they are optimized for a few tasks, including, typically, fast integer
> multiplies.
More precisely, fast integer inner products.
> IDEA and modular exponentiation both require lots of fast
> integer multiplies. Would it make sense to use DSPs as co-processors
> to things like Pentiums to speed up these processes?
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Jim Dixon