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by gok 2877 days ago
Sadly if you use the latest stream cipher that crypto people are hot on, and will often be the default in TLS 1.3, you’ll get no benefit :( ARM64 only has instructions for AES.
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If you mean ChaCha20-Poly1305, looks like performance improvements may land in Go 1.12: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22809

ChaCha can be accelerated with generic SIMD instructions on any arch that supports them. Personally I think that's preferable to algorithm-specific instructions like AES-NI.