Comment by ComputerGuru
Comment by ComputerGuru 20 hours ago
Hardware-accelerated SHA support has a patchy history. I wrote an article some years ago about the prevalence of SHA instructions in x86 in x86_64 CPUs [0], like the current mess we see now with AVX-512, Intel invented something useful then declined to continue supporting it, while competitors that were late to the party became the real champions.
[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/will-amds-ryzen-finally-bring-sha-...