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commit 0d622f2dea1640d184bd9e875a138611e89ad1d1
parent 2cc16b98e2ae0ea34b94bfb4560973c303ede29f
Author: Jared Tobin <jared@jtobin.io>
Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:54:07 +0400

readme: note x86_64 hardware acceleration

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@@ -56,10 +56,11 @@ Haddocks (API documentation, etc.) are hosted at
 
 ## Performance
 
-The aim is best-in-class performance. Current benchmark figures on an
-M4 Silicon MacBook Air, where we avail of hardware acceleration via
-ARM cryptography extensions, look like (use `cabal bench` to run the
-benchmark suite):
+The aim is best-in-class performance. We avail of hardware
+acceleration via the ARM SHA512 extensions on aarch64, and the x86
+SHA512 extensions on x86_64, whenever the CPU supports them. Current
+benchmark figures on an M4 Silicon MacBook Air look like (use `cabal
+bench` to run the benchmark suite):
 
 ```
   benchmarking ppad-sha512/SHA512 (32B input)/hash