Re: openssl speed

In article <20080118005424.GC25222drowsy.duskware.de>,
Martin Husemann  <martinduskware.de> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:47:48AM +0000, Steven M.
Bellovin wrote:
>> The question is what we can or should do about it
in this case.
>
>Perl is not a big problem in this case, we can commit
the pre-generated
>files. But we need to check if the code, when compiled
with the sse2 stuff,
>would do runtime detection of the cpu type and use
apropriate code for
>older cpus.

I don't think it uses sse2/mmx or anything advances from
looking at
the assembly code for AES on i386. We can definitely run
perl, pregenerate
the files and use them.

christos