I tried the patch submitted by Riku Voipio that enables ARM assembler optimizations for ARM and it makes a big difference. For instance, on a Marvell Kirkwood 88F6281 (CPU Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 @1.2GHz):
benchmark debian with patch sha1 39305.22k --> 41343.57k aes-128 cbc 11517.95k --> 17571.84k aes-256 cbc 8523.52k --> 13213.70k sha256 13940.10k --> 28207.79k sha512 2441.22k --> 12656.64k rsa 1024 1637.4v/s --> 3152.4v/s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org