Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
- What version of Go are you using (
go version)?
go version devel +b882707 Thu Jul 21 15:33:00 2016 -0500 linux/ppc64le
- What operating system and processor architecture are you using (
go env)?
linux/ppc64le
- What did you do?
I noticed that performance of crypto/ecdsa on POWER was significantly slower than on Intel, due in large part to time spent in functions in arith.go
- What did you expect to see?
Similar performance profile to Intel.
I have a change that optimizes hotspots in ppc64 assembly.