RSA performance on Athlon64 vs. Itanium
J.A. Terranson
measl at mfn.org
Wed Oct 22 18:46:04 PDT 2003
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Lucky Green wrote:
> I just picked up an Athlon64 3200+, which runs at a 2 GHz clock speed.
> Using the Red Hat for AMD64 beta and the version of OpenSSL that ships
> with that beta, I get 922 1024-bit RSA signs per second. This is a tad
> less RSA signatures per second than I have seen on an 800MHz Itanium
> using highly optimized assembler. That's rather poor performance on the
> Athlon64.
>
> Are the figures that I am seeing typical for OpenSSL on the Athlon64?
> Has anybody here seen different figures using optimized code?
>
> Thanks,
> --Lucky Green
Was there ever a reply to this? If so, could someone forward it to me
off-list, as I missed it :-(
Thanks!
--
Yours,
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org
"Every living thing dies alone."
Donnie Darko
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