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Re: Debian vs Gentoo



On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 20:48, CaT wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:11:27PM -0700, nate wrote:
> > > I was reading some "openssl speed rsa" benchmarks. I was noticing my
> > > Sarge Athlon 2100+ was about the same speed as some 800MHz G4 systems. I
> > > then downloaded the current openssl source and compiled with the default
> > > ./config command options. There was a doubling of speed.
> > > Of course, this synthetic benchmark is quite narrow in it's
> > > measurements.
> > 
> > quite an impressive speed gain, but I wonder since ssl is a pretty
> > low level thing, how much of that gain would be visible by using
> > apps like openssh/apache-ssl or other things that use ssl ?
> 
> One example that I can pull out of my butt right now is this:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200203/msg00189.html

Hmmm.  Sounds like ssh encryption would also speed up if recompiled...

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