My first thought was the same. Which brought up another interesting question....the 32bit Pentium II 333 is still faster than the UltraSparc 400.
I am running Solaris 9 in 64bit mode and used the default for the latest Openssl96g. I get 2,700,000 Des calculations per minute on the Pentium and 2,400,00 on the UltraSparc with 32bit mode libraries. I have just compiled the libraries using Solaris64-gcc and compiled my program using -m64 and receive 1,700,000 calculations per second. Hmm, is it just me or is something wrong with that math..heh... James --- Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:36:55 -0700 (PDT), James > Shelby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > jlshelby> I've recently been using OpenSSL to test > performance > jlshelby> on a cluster solution I am designing and > discovered > jlshelby> some strange results. On a pentium II 333 > system I > jlshelby> can do 2,700,000 des computations per > minute but on a > jlshelby> 64bit 400 Mhz Ultra Sparc can only do > 2,400,000 per > jlshelby> minute. Being the Ultrasparc is not only > faster but > jlshelby> double the bitwidth I would expect a > higher > jlshelby> performance from this system. > jlshelby> > jlshelby> Is this to be expected? > > The questions that come to my mind are: > > 1. What version of OpenSSL are you talking about? > 2. How did you configure, and what does the > following command give? > > grep '^PLATFORM' Makefile > > The answer to the second question will tell us if > OpenSSL was compiled > as a 32-bit or 64-bit application, which I think I > recall makes a > significant difference... > > -- > Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 > 52 47 > \ SWEDEN \ or > +46-708-26 53 44 > Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the OpenSSL development team: > http://www.openssl.org/ > > Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an > archival fee of $400. > See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for > more info. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
