That's because the assembler in Mac OS X is based on a very old version of 
GNU AS, which doesn't support .intel_syntax. The assembly code in Crypto++ 
is written in Intel syntax to be compatible with Microsoft 
compilers/assemblers.

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From: "Jose Cisneros" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:45 AM
To: "Crypto++ Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Performance in Mac OS X

> Hi all,
>
> I am using cryptopp in Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux (Fedora), and I
> have found that the performance to generate RSA keys in Mac OS X is
> much slower than in Windows and Fedora.  It is like 5 to 10 times
> slower.  To check this, I used the cryptest.exe file with option "g".
>
> Is this the current behaviour of cryptopp or do I need to add
> something else so that the performance is the same in all operating
> systems.
>
> I appreciate your help.
>
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