Chris Cioffi wrote: > That said, I'm considering doing some benchmarks with OpenSSL. I keep > hearing that _maybe_ compiling OpenSSL for you specific platform will > have Big Performance Yeilds(tm). Though actually putting that idea into > production will have to wait until my systems are so loaded that might > make a difference. Yes it really does. The openssl in unstable includes optimized libraries for serveral processors that really speed them up, as much as 2x in some cases. This is a good example of heavy number crunching code that can use compile-time optimization (and ls is not .. ;-). A little-known fact is that linux's linker makes it very easy to produce optimized little libraries (which can contain only the tight loop that really needs optimization in an application, for instance), drop them in an appropriate /usr/lib/<cpuname> directory and have the best one be picked automatically at program run (well, link) time. This makes it a lot more practical to do per-processor optimizations on binary distributions like debian. -- see shy jo
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