Some time ago I came over the following article: Fast CRC32 in Assembly. It claimed that the assembly implementation was faster than the one implemented in C. Performance was always something I’m interested in, so I repeated and extended the experiment.

Here are the numbers I got. This is ...

Well, new for me at least…

The first one is 0x41414141.com. Just go to the site and you can start directly. As far as I know, this is not time-bound.

The second one is spargecoduasta.com (“break this code”). It is put up by BitDefender and I don’t ...