Rijndael in Assembler for x86?

[Ben Laurie]

Ian Goldberg wrote something above this:
> [Moderator's note: The best DES implementations for i386s in assembler
> are several times faster than the best in C. I'm not sure about AES
> but I'd prefer to try and see. Perhaps it's a feature of DES's odd bit
> manipulation patterns, perhaps not. I have yet to see GCC produce code
> for almost anything that was just as fast as hand tuned assembler,
> though. --Perry]

By far the best assember I ever saw from a C compiler came from
Watcom's. I'm sure I remember hearing they open sourced it a while back.
Or did I dream that?

Cheers,

Ben.

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