1998年12月1日 · Algorithms with word sizes larger than 32 bits (SHARK, RC5-64/24, and Tiger, for example) will perform relatively better on 64-bit architectures. The SHARK implementation has the additional disadvantage on a Pentium of having tables that are too large to fit into the on-chip data cache, a property it shares with Snefru.

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