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The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each
by Terribledactyl 9y ago
The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each core can speed up the work, but they were executed speculatively and presumably are no longer done so.
- viraptor 9y agoFrom Geekbench knowledgebase: "Geekbench will use AES instructions when available, and fall back to software implementations otherwise." I expect this test to use them.