[BUGS] OpenSSL speedup on those low end Via C3 chips

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:09:54AM +1100, Edward Irvine wrote:
>Running the following command consistently gives an encryption speed of 
>22.8 Mbytes/sec.

That looks more reasonable.  My 'check the test vectors' was just an
additional level of paranoia.

>By comparison, a 64 bit version of openssl, compiled with Sun's C compiler 
>and running on one of Sun's new x2200 Opteron machines can do about four 
>times that speed, i.e. 88 Mbyte/sec.

Whilst consuming 2 orders of magnitude more power.  The AMD Geode LX
datasheet talks about >40MB/s at 400MHz.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an RFC2821-compliant MTA.
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