An Impulse-C Hardware Accelerator for Packet Classification Based on Fine/Coarse Grain Optimization

Table 4

Performance achieved in terms of preprocessing (Rule/sec) and time (ms).

Benchmark	Preprocessing (rule/sec)		Time (ms)		Speedup over desktop (x)
	Desktop	Impulse-C	Desktop	Impulse-C	Impulse-C
ACL (10 K)	38,412.00	43,936.51	250	218.57	1.14
FW (10 K)	39,621.28	44,112.83	235	211.07	1.11
IPC (10 K)	36,148.00	43,759.16	250	206.52	1.21
Average	38,060.43	43,936.16	245	212.05	1.16