crc32c-sse42

[crc32c-sse42] is a rust crate providing, where possible, hardware optimised (using SSE4.2 and the CLMUL instruction set (specifically, PCLMULQDQ)). Since SSE 4.2 is not (as of 2016) ubiquitous, a non-hardware-optimised version is supplied. Wherever possible, an assembler variant is used. This only works on 64-bit X86-64 Linux and Windows. A slightly less optimal solution that works on 64-bit and 32-bit (including x32 x86-64) x86 on any major OS is used secondarily (originally developed by Ferry Toth). Finally, the fallback logic is to do everything entirely in software.

For interest, a 32-bit and 64-bit implementation that uses SSE 4.2 but not CLMUL is included but not built (src/build.sse42_rjc.c).

Compiling and Installing

• The feature flag sse42 is set by default; disable it if installing on x86 platforms that lack SSE4.2.
• The program yasm must be present at build time if the feature flag sse42 is set.

Future Optimisations

• It is possible to introduce a fallback optimisation for 64-bit and 32-bit X86 CPUs which lack SSE 4.2 but have the CLMUL instruction set by using Intel's Slicing-by-8 code on SourceForge.

Licensing

The license for this project is MIT but some code is licensed under compatible licenses:-

• The file src/crc_iscsi_v_pcl.asm is licensed separately by Intel and was originally found in the GitHub repository crc32c.
• The file src/build.software.c is derived from posts by Mark Adler and Robert Važan on StackOverflow.