[PATCH] Add new benchmarking utility, bench-cycles

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:58, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> Bench-slope is new benchmarking tool for libgcrypt for obtaining overheadless
> cycles/byte speed of cipher and hash algorithms. Tool measures the time each
> operation (hash/encrypt/decrypt/authentication) takes for different buffer
> sizes of from ~0kB to ~4kB and calculates the slope for these data points.

Cool.

You may want to exit (77) if a nsec timer does not exist.  The
regression test driver then prints "SKIP".


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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