On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:03:29AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote:
> Historically I suspect the reason there were no default callbacks is that a
> sizeable proportion of OpenSSL users didn't use threading at all, and the
> baggage hauling in the thread libraries imposed was significant.
> 
> I don't think that's an issue anymore - threading is the common case now.

Maybe for some people.  For others, actually doing locked-bus instructions
by default would wreck OpenSSL's performance beyond compare.

Please don't make locking the default.

Thor
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