+2004-10-26 Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ * x86/arcfour-crypt.asm: Use movzbl when extending %cl to 32 bits.
+
+2004-10-24 Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ * x86/arcfour-crypt.asm: Reverted the latest two changes; update
+ bost src and dst pointers in the loop, and use plain addb when
+ updating j. These two previous changes slowed the code down on AMD
+ Duron.
+
2004-10-21 Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
* Makefile.in (install-shared): Use $(INSTALL_PROGRAM).
Stricter constness typing for the sexp_iterator_assoc and
sexp_iterator_check_types arguments.
- Speedup of arcfour on older x86 cpu:s, in particular PII and
- PPro.
+ Minor tweaks of arcfour on x86 cpu:s, to speed it up on older
+ x86 variants such as PII and PPro.
The shared library is intended to be binary compatible with
nettle-1.8 - nettle-1.10. Only the minor version number of the
- shared library is increased.
+ shared library is increased. The soname is still
+ libnettle.so.2.
NEWS for the 1.10 release