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Life & fun · January 24, 2019

Intel SHA Extensions provide 3/4x performance improvement over AVX2

Accelerate SHA256 computations in pure Go using AVX512, SHA Extensions for x86 and ARM64 for ARM. On AVX512 it provides an up to 8x improvement (over 3 GB/s per core). SHA Extensions give a performance boost of close to 4x over native. - minio/sha256-simd

Intel SHA Extensions provide 3/4x performance improvement over AVX2 launched on January 24, 2019 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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