On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 03:28, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:14:37 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > >> http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx > > He, he... what a good article, worth reading for those who want to "SSL- > ize" all the web >>>:-) > >> according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions >> per second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit >> kernels? >> >> is this true, or i am just misunderstanding something > > I would expect that it is so. 64-bits are usually recommended for high > computationally intensive tasks, like encryption.
I wonder if it is the actual 64 bits or the doubling of the registers that makes it faster (or both). Of course Sandy Bridge has AES-NI, which will speed it up a lot if you are using that algorithm. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikM9uT2iYi+NFkLn=r7mgvp1pl+vorw0yrz6...@mail.gmail.com
