nettle: runtime selection of HW-accelerated code
> Include multiple versions of certain functions in the library, > and select the ones to use at run-time, depending on available > processor features. Supported for ARM and x86_64. The current version seems to accelerate AES and SHA families. Size increase on x86_64 is <10k in our case. It can make quite some performance difference; I tried $ time ./result-dev/bin/nettle-hash -a sha256 /some/file/around/2G And the total CPU time went down from 8.5s to 2s (single thread). Now it matches the time of openssl $ time openssl sha256 /some/file/around/2G Of course, in real life it will be much harder to notice a difference... Platforms without support for this (e.g. i686) seem to still build fine, and ARMv7 cross-build also succeeds for me, so hopefully all is OK.
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nativeBuildInputs = [ gnum4 ];
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propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
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configureFlags = [ "--enable-fat" ]; # runtime selection of HW-accelerated code
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doCheck = (stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "i686-cygwin" && !stdenv.isDarwin);
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enableParallelBuilding = true;
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