I will respectfully disagree :). We have taken Intel's reference code (https://github.com/lukego/intel-ipsec/blob/master/code/avx2/gcm_avx_gen4.asm https://git

I will respectfully disagree :). We have taken Intel's reference code (https://github.com/lukego/intel-ipsec/blob/master/code/avx2/gcm_avx_gen4.asm https://github.com/lukego/intel-ipsec/blob/master/code/avx2/...) for high-speed AES-GCM encryption and used DynASM (https://luajit.org/dynasm.html https://luajit.org/dynasm.html) to refactor it as a much smaller program (https://github.com/snabbco/snabb/blob/master/src/lib/ipsec/aes_128_gcm_avx.dasl https://github.com/snabbco/snabb/blob/master/src/lib/ipsec/a...). I see this as highly worthwhile: we are working on making the software ecosystem simpler and tighter just because we are hackers, while Intel are working primarily on selling CPUs and whatever is best for their bottom line. I disagree with this characterization of DDIO but I don't think Hacker News comments is the best venue for such low-level discussions. Hope to chat with you about it in some more suitable forum some time :) that would be fun.