Hi,
I have done a bit of research into this topic and some of my findings directly oppose what was said about the itanium not matching the P3 Mhz to Mhz.
I have found out that the 0.9.6 distributions of OSSL do not include Itanium assembly implementations for much (maybe any Itanium assembly at all, I didn't look) of the CPU intensive operations, including RSA/ModExp. So OSSL uses the C routines which are, to say the least, not optimum.
It's also worth remebering that the Itanium uses EPIC(explicitly parallel instruction computing) and that in order to see the performance it's capable of it must be programmed appropriately. It has been suggested that if there were optimised assmebly routines for the Itanium it would certainly beat the P3 Mhz/Mhz.
Anyone care to comment on this?
Thanks,
Diarmuid
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