⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2025-02-18 Table of contents Why is it a problem at all and how did it come to be? Non-SIMD implementation Explanation The code Results Possible optimizations SIMD (SSE) implementation Explanation The code Results Intel SHA extension implementation Explanations The code Results OpenSSL hand crafted assembly implementation Additional improvements Conclusion SIMD and dedicated silicon to the rescue. I am writing a torrent application, to download and serve torre...