On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:15 AM, Rob Stradling <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 31/08/14 19:53, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> Greetings. I want to use "openssl speed" as a very loose proxy for "how fast 
>> is this CPU right now". (Note the use of the word "very" there.) I also want 
>> to test systems that are running in VMs. However, if I'm comparing across 
>> CPU families, OpenSSL might have some optimizations for some algorithms 
>> (like AES) that work better or worse depending on the features of the CPU.
>> 
>> If I were to pick one algorithm that is least likely to be optimized past 
>> normal C optimization, which would it be?
> 
> Paul, if you build OpenSSL with the "no-asm" configuration option, presumably 
> none of the algorithms will be optimized past normal C optimization.  Does 
> this help?

Yep, thanks. Also, I got an off-line note that no one had ever figured out how 
to optimize TripleDES at all, so that was a safe one to use as a reference.

--Paul Hoffman
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