summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc/speed.doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/speed.doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/speed.doc96
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 96 deletions
diff --git a/doc/speed.doc b/doc/speed.doc
deleted file mode 100644
index 11dfa85f08..0000000000
--- a/doc/speed.doc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-To get an idea of the performance of this library, use
-ssleay speed
-
-perl util/sp-diff.pl file1 file2
-
-will print out the relative differences between the 2 files which are
-expected to be the output from the speed program.
-
-The performace of the library is very dependant on the Compiler
-quality and various flags used to build.
-
----
-
-These are some numbers I did comparing RSAref and SSLeay on a Pentium 100.
-[ These numbers are all out of date, as of SSL - 0.6.1 the RSA
-operations are about 2 times faster, so check the version number ]
-
-RSA performance.
-
-SSLeay 0.6.0
-Pentium 100, 32meg, Windows NT Workstation 3.51
-linux - gcc v 2.7.0 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486
-and
-Windows NT - Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 4.1 - 586 code + 32bit assember
-Windows 3.1 - Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 1.52c - 286 code + 32bit assember
-NT Dos Shell- Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 1.52c - 286 code + 16bit assember
-
-Times are how long it takes to do an RSA private key operation.
-
- 512bits 1024bits
--------------------------------
-SSLeay NT dll 0.042s 0.202s see above
-SSLeay linux 0.046s 0.218s Assember inner loops (normal build)
-SSLeay linux 0.067s 0.380s Pure C code with BN_LLONG defined
-SSLeay W3.1 dll 0.108s 0.478s see above
-SSLeay linux 0.109s 0.713s C without BN_LLONG.
-RSAref2.0 linux 0.149s 0.936s
-SSLeay MS-DOS 0.197s 1.049s see above
-
-486DX66, 32meg, Windows NT Server 3.51
- 512bits 1024bits
--------------------------------
-SSLeay NT dll 0.084s 0.495s <- SSLeay 0.6.3
-SSLeay NT dll 0.154s 0.882s
-SSLeay W3.1 dll 0.335s 1.538s
-SSLeay MS-DOS 0.490s 2.790s
-
-What I find cute is that I'm still faster than RSAref when using standard C,
-without using the 'long long' data type :-), %35 faster for 512bit and we
-scale up to 3.2 times faster for the 'default linux' build. I should mention
-that people should 'try' to use either x86-lnx.s (elf), x86-lnxa.s or
-x86-sol.s for any x86 based unix they are building on. The only problems
-with be with syntax but the performance gain is quite large, especially for
-servers. The code is very simple, you just need to modify the 'header'.
-
-The message is, if you are stuck using RSAref, the RSA performance will be
-bad. Considering the code was compiled for a pentium, the 486DX66 number
-would indicate 'Use RSAref and turn you Pentium 100 into a 486DX66' :-).
-[ As of verson 0.6.1, it would be correct to say 'turn you pentium 100
- into a 486DX33' :-) ]
-
-I won't tell people if the DLL's are using RSAref or my stuff if no-one
-asks :-).
-
-eric
-
-PS while I know I could speed things up further, I will probably not do
- so due to the effort involved. I did do some timings on the
- SSLeay bignum format -> RSAref number format conversion that occurs
- each time RSAref is used by SSLeay, and the numbers are trivial.
- 0.00012s a call for 512bit vs 0.149s for the time spent in the function.
- 0.00018s for 1024bit vs 0.938s. Insignificant.
- So the 'way to go', to support faster RSA libraries, if people are keen,
- is to write 'glue' code in a similar way that I do for RSAref and send it
- to me :-).
- My base library still has the advantage of being able to operate on
- any size numbers, and is not that far from the performance from the
- leaders in the field. (-%30?)
- [ Well as of 0.6.1 I am now the leader in the filed on x86 (we at
- least very close :-) ]
-
- I suppose I should also mention some other numbers RSAref numbers, again
- on my Pentium.
- DES CBC EDE-DES MD5
- RSAref linux 830k/s 302k/s 4390k/s
- SSLeay linux 855k/s 319k/s 10025k/s
- SSLeay NT 1158k/s 410k/s 10470k/s
- SSLeay w31 378k/s 143k/s 2383k/s (fully 16bit)
-
- Got to admit that Visual C++ 4.[01] is a damn fine compiler :-)
---
-Eric Young | BOOL is tri-state according to Bill Gates.
-AARNet: eay@cryptsoft.com | RTFM Win32 GetMessage().
-
-
-