[rescue] 128 bits...

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:25 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo 
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:
>>    Well, like I said...with table lookups and masking done directly by
>> hardware, not necessarily iterative code, things could be much faster.
>> I'm fairly certain a lot of higher-end Cisco gear does things this way
>> but I'm not positive.
>
> I would think that a specialized OS like IOS and complete control of
> the hardware like Cisco has would allow for some decent tricks even
> without special hardware.  But think how easily you could handle this
> stuff with a decently sized FPGA alongside a host CPU to run
> everything else.

   ...and Cisco is a huge user of VERY LARGE FPGAs.

       -Dave

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