On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 11:25:34AM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > > What would you think about having coreutils Depend on libssl3? This > > would make the libssl3 package essential, which is potentially > > undesirable, but it also has the potential for serious user time savings > > (on recent Intel CPUs, OpenSSL’s SHA-256 is over five times faster than > > coreutils’ internal implementation). > > That is only on amd64 though. > > On ARM and riscv64, OpenSSL is slightly slower than coreutils' sha256sum, so > this would introduce an additional dependency and degrade performance. The > best choice there is the kernel crypto API, which knows about offload > hardware and special CPU instructions, both of which are common.
OpenSSL should have the same hardware acceleration features as the kernel crypto API, without the socket overhead. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
