"Vince Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I can safely speak for everyone on debian-devel as per this: > > 1) The difference in overall speed is small, and rarely publically > reported. The 1% gain is individually considered either vital > must-have, or worthless.
You have obviously never used ssl on a SPARC machine. The lowest supported SPARC architecture is SPARCv7 which does not have hardware division and multiplication. Recompiling libssl with SPARCv8 optimizations speeds up logging in with ssh on an Ultra1 (SPARCv9) by a factor of 6, IIRC. See the debian-sparc archives for details. > This eternal flamewar is located somewhere in: > http://lists.debian.org archives And the less flamy part is in http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc -- ilmari
