[Haskell-cafe] Annoyed at System.Random

[Ryan Newton]

>
> 1. cprng-aes is painfully slow.
>>
> when using the haskell AES implementation yes. with AESNI it fly, and even
> more when
> i'll have time to chunk the generation to bigger blocks (says 128 AES
> block at a time)


One data-point -- in "intel-aes" I needed to do bigger blocks to get decent
performance.


>  2. It doesn't use NI instructions (or any C implementation, currently).
>>
> The NI instructions support are coming. and there's ton of already
> existing C implementation
> that could just be added.


Oh, neat.  Could you share a pointer to some C code (with GCC aes
intrinsics?) that can replace what the ASM does in the "intel-aes" package?
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