"J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Lucky Green wrote: >> I just picked up an Athlon64 3200+, which runs at a 2 GHz clock speed. >> Using the Red Hat for AMD64 beta and the version of OpenSSL that ships >> with that beta, I get 922 1024-bit RSA signs per second. This is a tad >> less RSA signatures per second than I have seen on an 800MHz Itanium >> using highly optimized assembler. That's rather poor performance on the >> Athlon64. >> >> Are the figures that I am seeing typical for OpenSSL on the Athlon64? >> Has anybody here seen different figures using optimized code? > >Was there ever a reply to this? If so, could someone forward it to me off- >list, as I missed it :-(
The reply, sent off-list, was something like "You're running x86-32 code on an x86-64 CPU in emulation mode, what do you expect?" :-). In addition the Itanium RSA demo code works by turning the CPU into a $1000 ASIC, so you'd need to test it for SSL handshakes per second or something similar where the CPU has to do some other work besides RSA crypto ops. Peter.