[fpc-pascal] Fast CRC functions?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Juha Manninen wrote:
> Ok, thanks. This is yet another topic I should learn about.
> 
> Tony, I don't believe pycrc can generate much faster functions than
> ours unless it uses SIMD.
> Our function works well but it is called so ofter that its speed is relevant.
> 
> Mark, I promise to study the algorithms but changing our algorith is
> not an option now. We want the same but faster.
> Maybe loop unrolling can make it little faster but nothing compared to
> a SIMD version of course.

My point was to take a look at the ones in the library, and see if one 
matches and if so whether it's faster (and then work out why). However 
I'm a bit dubious about your  and $00FFFFFF  operation which I suspect 
makes your implementation non-standard.

Loop unrolling may be an option, as might making sure that FPC is 
compiling the CRC generator with the best possible set of options. Using 
a thread probably isn't unless the buffers are large and you've got 
other useful work to do in parallel.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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