[PATCH] Add new benchmarking utility, bench-cycles

[Jussi Kivilinna]

On 28.10.2013 13:36, Werner Koch wrote:
> 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".

Ok, I'll change this.

-Jussi

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> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
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