[PATCH] wireguard-tools: allow compiling with MIPS16 instructions

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:05 AM Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 09:53, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> >
> > Testing the process once like that isn't a good testing methodology
> > representative of anything at all.
>
> I completely agree, this wasn't an objective test at all. I was merely
> illustrating what a normal user will do, generate a key pair to
> configure a VPN. If it took more than two seconds, I'd be worried, but
> it "feels" instantaneous. I could, of course, time 1000 key
> generations in a loop, on a completely idle system, but that wouldn't
> represent the typical use case. :)

This might be a typical use case for you, but some people are running
scripts that generate lots of keys. There may be a good argument that
if you're doing that kind of thing, a tiny MIPS router isn't the right
hardware for your use case. But, before going down that route, I'd
still be interested in knowing if it _actually_ makes any difference
at all. Maybe it's negligible, for example.