> I've been looking into the AltiVec implementation. product() should run in
> about 125 clock cycles (plus call overhead) if the branch folding magic of
> the PPC works and I can get everything to schedule right. I'm looking at
> invert() now.
Sounds good!
> What is the expected completion time for the project
Assuming that we don't attract more machines than we have now, the
current expectations are
40% probability of success by late february
60% probability of success by mid-march
80% probability of success by early april.
> and is there a
> followup project that will be able to use the same code base?
I'll let Rob answer this. However, you can have a look at
Certicom's pages (http://www.certicom.com/chal/ch_62.htm)
to get an idea of the complexity of the next bigger challenges.
- Xavier Leroy
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