Re: openssl speed

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080118005424.GC25222%drowsy.duskware.de@localhost>,
Martin Husemann  <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:47:48AM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> The question is what we can or should do about it in this case.
>
>Perl is not a big problem in this case, we can commit the pre-generated
>files. But we need to check if the code, when compiled with the sse2 stuff,
>would do runtime detection of the cpu type and use apropriate code for
>older cpus.

I don't think it uses sse2/mmx or anything advances from looking at
the assembly code for AES on i386. We can definitely run perl, pregenerate
the files and use them.

christos