Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] epan/asm_utils* and NASM

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:11:28 -0700
On Oct 13, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Before we migrated away from NMake, epan/Makefile.nmake built the assembly versions of various routines for x86 (but not x64) defined in epan/asm_utils_win32_x86.asm. Should we resurrect it in epan/CMakeLists.txt or get rid of it along with the NASM download in tools/win-setup.ps1?

Are there any platforms on which the assembler versions are significantly faster than the non-assembler versions?

If not, I'd say get rid of it.