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		brcmthrowaway 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wireguard FPGA If a PC can do 10Gbps, are there any cycles left for other stuff?

soneil 46 days ago [–]

bps are easy. packets per second is the crunch. Say you've got 64 bytes per packet, which would be a worst-case-scenario - you're down to 150Mpacket/sec. Sending one byte after another is the easy bit, the decisions are made per-packet.

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