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Erasure codes normally deal with fairly small fields (e.g. F(2^8)); which might reduce the usefulness of the carryless multiply instruction.

• problems 10y ago
  This sounds potentially useful for things like GCM too, would it be more helpful there?
  • nullc 10y ago
    AFAICT, the carryless multiply instruction was pretty much added for GCM's benefit.