MystenLabs / MystenLabs/fastcrypto
[performance] Ensure SIMD/AVX2 instructions are used if available
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- Rust
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Description
For many operations vectorized instructions might be available, let's use whenever possible (we need to check feature flags) in the dependency libraries and enable them when possible.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by auditing the dependency libraries and their feature flags to determine which SIMD/AVX2 options are available; done means enabling suitable flags where supported and confirming that vectorized instructions are used when available.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cryptography, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100