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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kirill
5dbfb37d74 eth2_hashing: make cpufeatures dep optional (#3309)
## Issue Addressed

#3308 

## Proposed Changes

* add `cpufeatures` feature.
* make `cpufeature` default feature to preserve the compatibility;
* hide all `cpufeature`-related code with `cpufeatures` feature.

Co-authored-by: Kirill <kirill@aurora.dev>
2022-07-06 22:00:58 +00:00
Michael Sproul
2c691af95b Use hardware acceleration for SHA256 (#2426)
## Proposed Changes

Modify the SHA256 implementation in `eth2_hashing` so that it switches between `ring` and `sha2` to take advantage of [x86_64 SHA extensions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions). The extensions are available on modern Intel and AMD CPUs, and seem to provide a considerable speed-up: on my Ryzen 5950X it dropped state tree hashing times by about 30% from 35ms to 25ms (on Prater).

## Additional Info

The extensions became available in the `sha2` crate [last year](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/hf2vcx/ann_rustcryptos_sha1_and_sha2_now_support/), and are not available in Ring, which uses a [pure Rust implementation of sha2](https://github.com/briansmith/ring/blob/main/src/digest/sha2.rs). Ring is faster on CPUs that lack the extensions so I've implemented a runtime switch to use `sha2` only when the extensions are available. The runtime switching seems to impose a miniscule penalty (see the benchmarks linked below).
2021-07-12 08:47:01 +00:00
Paul Hauner
4331834003
Directory Restructure (#1163)
* Move tests -> testing

* Directory restructure

* Update Cargo.toml during restructure

* Update Makefile during restructure

* Fix arbitrary path
2020-05-18 21:24:23 +10:00