Apple M1/M2 have an EOR3 instruction that can XOR 2 operands with
another one, and LLVM knows how to take advantage of it.
However, two EOR can't be automatically combined into an EOR3 if
one of them is in an assembly block.
That simple change speeds up ciphers doing an AES round immediately
followed by a XOR operation on Apple Silicon.
Before:
aegis-128l mac: 12534 MiB/s
aegis-256 mac: 6722 MiB/s
aegis-128l: 10634 MiB/s
aegis-256: 6133 MiB/s
aes128-gcm: 3890 MiB/s
aes256-gcm: 3122 MiB/s
aes128-ocb: 2832 MiB/s
aes256-ocb: 2057 MiB/s
After:
aegis-128l mac: 15667 MiB/s
aegis-256 mac: 8240 MiB/s
aegis-128l: 12656 MiB/s
aegis-256: 7214 MiB/s
aes128-gcm: 3976 MiB/s
aes256-gcm: 3202 MiB/s
aes128-ocb: 2835 MiB/s
aes256-ocb: 2118 MiB/s
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
License
The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.