Re: Broadcom & OpenSSL support

[John R Pierce]

Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
We are planning to buy this hardware

http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM800

It claims to run under linux, how ever after linux loads its module. I wonder 
to know if openssl will take advantege of it?
  

thats a 6 year old product, hung on the old/slow PCI parallel bus..  I'd 
think 1 extra core on a modern CPU would be more than sufficient to 
outperform it


it claims 400% faster than a Pentium-III, whoa.    but, um.... we have 
Nehalem based quad core Xeon server processors now that are 16 times or 
more faster than a Pentium-III per core.



color me skeptical.   also, having seen Broadcom software before, run, 
run away now.


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