On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:05:35 +0200 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > Am 19.10.2013 16:59, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > > But that's a fringe situation. Any normal build of Python should be > > compiled with OpenSSL support (and any decent binary build is). I think > > the mention in the docs is distracting and will create pointless > > uncertainty in the reader. > > HMAC_CTX_copy() is not available in OpenSSL < 1.0. My optimized code > won't run on OpenSSL 0.9.8. IMHO it's important to understand that some > code may complete in ~100ms instead of ~30ms.
Well, I disagree about the importance of documenting a 3x difference on a select function (rather than, say, a couple orders of magnitude), but the OpenSSL version issue at least makes the situation more plausible :-) (even though OpenSSL 1.0 is already 3.5 years old) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
