4defdfab94 [MOVEONLY] Move unused Merkle branch code to tests (Pieter Wuille)
4437d6e1f3 8-way AVX2 implementation for double SHA256 on 64-byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)
230294bf5f 4-way SSE4.1 implementation for double SHA256 on 64-byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)
1f0e7ca09c Use SHA256D64 in Merkle root computation (Pieter Wuille)
d0c9632883 Specialized double sha256 for 64 byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)
57f34630fb Refactor SHA256 code (Pieter Wuille)
0df017889b Benchmark Merkle root computation (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
This introduces a framework for specialized double-SHA256 with 64 byte inputs. 4 different implementations are provided:
* Generic C++ (reusing the normal SHA256 code)
* Specialized C++ for 64-byte inputs, but no special instructions
* 4-way using SSE4.1 intrinsics
* 8-way using AVX2 intrinsics
On my own system (AVX2 capable), I get these benchmarks for computing the Merkle root of 9001 leaves (supported lengths / special instructions / parallellism):
* 7.2 ms with varsize/naive/1way (master, non-SSE4 hardware)
* 5.8 ms with size64/naive/1way (this PR, non-SSE4 capable systems)
* 4.8 ms with varsize/SSE4/1way (master, SSE4 hardware)
* 2.9 ms with size64/SSE4/4way (this PR, SSE4 hardware)
* 1.1 ms with size64/AVX2/8way (this PR, AVX2 hardware)
Tree-SHA512: efa32d48b32820d9ce788ead4eb583949265be8c2e5f538c94bc914e92d131a57f8c1ee26c6f998e81fb0e30675d4e2eddc3360bcf632676249036018cff343e