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hash-24 QuantaSylva Hash — performance on x86-64 (system x86_1)

Independent measurement following the structure of the NICCS x86 self-assessment guide, §3.5 (1)–(7). Not a submitter self-assessment.

1. Basic information

2. Assessment environment

item value
processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 (CPU 2, one core)
clock max 2.10 GHz, governor performance, turbo off, SMT off
memory 31788 MiB
OS / kernel Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) / 6.12.107+deb13-amd64
compiler / build tool gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0 / cmake version 3.31.6
campaign start / end (UTC) 2026-09-25T10:02:21 / 2026-09-28T10:51:21

3. Functional testing (KAT)

Each library was checked against the submitted KAT vectors (SHA-256 manifest hash-24/kat.sha256 in the harness) before timing.

instance build flags KAT
QSH-512 guide PASS
QSH-768 guide PASS
QSH-1024 guide PASS

4. Performance

instance message mean cycles cycles/byte mean time MB/s n
QSH-512 32 B 81.8 k 2556.3 39.1 µs 0.8 100000 (5 × 20000)
QSH-512 128 B 109.4 k 854.9 52.3 µs 2.4 82070 (5 × 16414)
QSH-512 512 B 190.2 k 371.5 90.9 µs 5.6 50320 (5 × 10064)
QSH-512 1024 B 299.6 k 292.6 143 µs 7.2 32865 (5 × 6573)
QSH-512 4096 B 1.06 M 258.7 506 µs 8.1 9800 (5 × 1960)
QSH-512 8192 B 2.04 M 249.0 975 µs 8.4 5095 (5 × 1019)
QSH-512 16384 B 4.00 M 244.0 1.91 ms 8.6 2615 (5 × 523)
QSH-512 65536 B 15.73 M 240.0 7.51 ms 8.7 660 (5 × 132)
QSH-768 32 B 160.5 k 5016.4 76.7 µs 0.4 59110 (5 × 11822)
QSH-768 128 B 160.7 k 1255.6 76.8 µs 1.7 59390 (5 × 11878)
QSH-768 512 B 267.3 k 522.0 128 µs 4.0 36220 (5 × 7244)
QSH-768 1024 B 375.3 k 366.5 179 µs 5.7 26500 (5 × 5300)
QSH-768 4096 B 1.12 M 274.1 536 µs 7.6 9125 (5 × 1825)
QSH-768 8192 B 2.08 M 254.1 995 µs 8.2 5005 (5 × 1001)
QSH-768 16384 B 4.00 M 244.2 1.91 ms 8.6 2610 (5 × 522)
QSH-768 65536 B 15.55 M 237.3 7.43 ms 8.8 665 (5 × 133)
QSH-1024 32 B 160.3 k 5010.1 76.6 µs 0.4 52655 (5 × 10531)
QSH-1024 128 B 160.3 k 1252.7 76.6 µs 1.7 58490 (5 × 11698)
QSH-1024 512 B 266.5 k 520.5 127 µs 4.0 35220 (5 × 7044)
QSH-1024 1024 B 374.4 k 365.7 179 µs 5.7 26425 (5 × 5285)
QSH-1024 4096 B 1.12 M 274.1 536 µs 7.6 9175 (5 × 1835)
QSH-1024 8192 B 2.09 M 254.8 997 µs 8.2 4595 (5 × 919)
QSH-1024 16384 B 4.02 M 245.1 1.92 ms 8.5 2565 (5 × 513)
QSH-1024 65536 B 15.54 M 237.1 7.42 ms 8.8 670 (5 × 134)

5. Resource consumption

Static memory is approximated by the library's loadable ELF segments; peak memory is the process high-water mark (VmHWM) including the benchmark driver and libc, so both are upper-bound proxies rather than isolated algorithm memory.

instance operation static: ELF image (bytes) baseline RSS peak RSS
QSH-512 hash_32 14401 1696 KiB 1760 KiB
QSH-512 hash_128 14401 1660 KiB 1784 KiB
QSH-512 hash_512 14401 1684 KiB 1764 KiB
QSH-512 hash_1024 14401 1692 KiB 1756 KiB
QSH-512 hash_4096 14401 1696 KiB 1788 KiB
QSH-512 hash_8192 14401 1680 KiB 1748 KiB
QSH-512 hash_16384 14401 1692 KiB 1760 KiB
QSH-512 hash_65536 14401 1732 KiB 1848 KiB
QSH-768 hash_32 14401 1680 KiB 1764 KiB
QSH-768 hash_128 14401 1680 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-768 hash_512 14401 1668 KiB 1732 KiB
QSH-768 hash_1024 14401 1692 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-768 hash_4096 14401 1676 KiB 1764 KiB
QSH-768 hash_8192 14401 1680 KiB 1784 KiB
QSH-768 hash_16384 14401 1704 KiB 1800 KiB
QSH-768 hash_65536 14401 1736 KiB 1848 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_32 14401 1692 KiB 1756 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_128 14401 1688 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_512 14401 1680 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_1024 14401 1656 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_4096 14401 1700 KiB 1764 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_8192 14401 1700 KiB 1780 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_16384 14401 1692 KiB 1760 KiB
QSH-1024 hash_65536 14401 1712 KiB 1852 KiB

7. Raw evidence index

Paths are relative to performance/data/x86_1/ in the harness; each JSON file records its commands, environment and trials.

instance item file
QSH-512 KAT log (sha256 0de7f2030e7c06b3…) kat/hash-24/QSH-512.log
QSH-512 timing hash_1024 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_1024.json
QSH-512 timing hash_128 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_128.json
QSH-512 timing hash_16384 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_16384.json
QSH-512 timing hash_32 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_32.json
QSH-512 timing hash_4096 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_4096.json
QSH-512 timing hash_512 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_512.json
QSH-512 timing hash_65536 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_65536.json
QSH-512 timing hash_8192 records/hash-24/QSH-512__hash_8192.json
QSH-768 KAT log (sha256 73746257fe9e66f5…) kat/hash-24/QSH-768.log
QSH-768 timing hash_1024 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_1024.json
QSH-768 timing hash_128 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_128.json
QSH-768 timing hash_16384 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_16384.json
QSH-768 timing hash_32 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_32.json
QSH-768 timing hash_4096 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_4096.json
QSH-768 timing hash_512 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_512.json
QSH-768 timing hash_65536 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_65536.json
QSH-768 timing hash_8192 records/hash-24/QSH-768__hash_8192.json
QSH-1024 KAT log (sha256 97d6763bea0cc373…) kat/hash-24/QSH-1024.log
QSH-1024 timing hash_1024 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_1024.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_128 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_128.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_16384 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_16384.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_32 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_32.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_4096 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_4096.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_512 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_512.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_65536 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_65536.json
QSH-1024 timing hash_8192 records/hash-24/QSH-1024__hash_8192.json

Scripts: performance/campaign.py, performance/ngcc_perf.c, performance/hashprof/ in the harness.