At 02:56 PM 9/20/2006 +0200, you wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:45:22PM -0500, Tom Uban wrote:
> > I've managed to compile/install both OpenSSL and OpenSSH on my
> > Sparc IPX running NetBSD 1.4.1, although it may have been a futile
> > effort as some of the operations on the IPX take an eternity.
>
>The key exchange at the start of a ssl connection is *very* painfull
>on v7 sparc CPUs. A v8 will perform quite a lot better.
>
>If your pain level is high enough and you have sparc assembler experience,
>you could try to get sparc v7 assembler support working for the openssl
>big number library.

What kind of speed improvement would you expect me to gain from this
effort?

--tom