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



The following reply was made to PR bin/51333; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, zafer%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/51333: base openssl is 25% slower than pkgsrc openssl
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:29:11 +0200

 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
 


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