TinyJAMBU C++ Compiler Analysis
A project to measure the performance of the TinyJAMBU cryptography algorithm on GCC and Clang compilers.
In this project, I delved into cryptography algorithms, mainly TinyJAMBU, and did a study on its performance between the GCC and Clang compiler in C++. Done in VirtualBox, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
The specs of the computer used for this study are as follows:
- 9th Gen Intel Core i7-9750H
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
- 16GB DDR4 System Memory
- 8GB GDDR6 Video Memory
Each test ran utilizing 6 cores of the Intel i7-9750H processor, at 2592.01 MHz per CPU.
I utilized Anjan Roy’s C++ TinyJAMBU implementation, along with Google Benchmark for collecting the times and other data needed for analysis.
Screenshot of one of the benchmarks run in VirtualBox, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
The key finding was that Clang exhibited slightly better performance compared to GCC across various key sizes (128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit).
You can read my full paper on the subject here.