Re: bin/51333: base openssl is 25% slower than pkgsrc openssl

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:25:01PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/51333; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: bin/51333: base openssl is 25% slower than pkgsrc openssl
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:20:00 +0000
> 
>  On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:40:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>   >  > While deploying a NetBSD server to a cloud provider, I noticed that
>   >  > openssl speed showed reduced results with NetBSD compared to SmartOS, FreeBSD or Linux.
>   >  
>   >  We don't use OpenSSL's SHA2 implementation as it overlaps with libc.
>  
>  so the sha2 in libc is slow?

Well, it's portable C code. Whether the difference justies looking at an
assembler version is a different question. There might even be potential
for improving the existing version.

Joerg