Custom Optimization flags

2011-04-15 Thread John
Hey guys, I've got a couple of quick questions regarding building openSSL with custom compiler optimization flags. I'm attempting to optimize the builds of some select OS components specifically for the Intel Atom under Linux, (I'm using the 2.6.37 kernel, glibc 2.13, binutils 2.21, gcc 4.5.2; my

Re: Custom Optimization flags

2011-04-15 Thread Eric S. Eberhard
In real life I have found various optimizations to cause more trouble than not, and to not really change real-world performance. Unless you are in a hard loop encrypting/decrypting I don't think anyone will notice. I do 10s of thousands of encryption/decryption calls each day and they add no