Re: OPENSSL slowness

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Laurie
David Schwartz wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:54:49 -0700 (PDT), James Shelby wrote: My first thought was the same. Which brought up another interesting questionthe 32bit Pentium II 333 is still faster than the UltraSparc 400. Frankly, I don't find this surprising. A RISC CPU

OPENSSL slowness

2002-08-11 Thread James Shelby
I've recently been using OpenSSL to test performance on a cluster solution I am designing and discovered some strange results. On a pentium II 333 system I can do 2,700,000 des computations per minute but on a 64bit 400 Mhz Ultra Sparc can only do 2,400,000 per minute. Being the Ultrasparc is

Re: OPENSSL slowness

2002-08-11 Thread James Shelby
My first thought was the same. Which brought up another interesting questionthe 32bit Pentium II 333 is still faster than the UltraSparc 400. I am running Solaris 9 in 64bit mode and used the default for the latest Openssl96g. I get 2,700,000 Des calculations per minute on the Pentium and

Re: OPENSSL slowness

2002-08-11 Thread David Schwartz
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:54:49 -0700 (PDT), James Shelby wrote: My first thought was the same. Which brought up another interesting questionthe 32bit Pentium II 333 is still faster than the UltraSparc 400. Frankly, I don't find this surprising. A RISC CPU would likely be slower