Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems wrote, On 2009-01-21 15:03: > You are running Darwin, and freebl does not have any optimizations for > RSA on darwin. It has some assembly optimizations on most other x86 > platforms. But on Darwin, freebl is built with plain C code, and no > assembly at all. That is one reason why the code is running a lot slower.
> Even if you end up building NSS with optimizations, they use the regular > multiply instructions, which performs best on AMD chips, but not as well > on Intel CPUs. For Intel, one needs to use the SSE2 and above > instructions set, which NSS currently doesn't do - except on one > platform, Linux. Is there any reason why we can't use the same optimizations on Darwin/x86 as we use on Linux? _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
