Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:48:16 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of libgmp Message-ID: <20010714074816.A3942@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010714085317.13FCB3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:53:16AM -0700 References: <3B4F4062.1B661B6D@mindspring.com> <20010714085317.13FCB3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:53:16AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: > > > > Benchmarks, proving that you increased, or at least did not > > injure performance with this change? > > My wrapper around OpenSSL's BIGNUM library doesn't introduce any > performance penalties beyond one or two more 'call' instructions. If > OpenSSL's BIGNUM library is slower than libgmp (and it probably is), > then someone just needs to fix that. The fact that I decided to write > a wrapper around BIGNUM instead of converting all the programs which > use libmp to use BIGNUM is better from a performance point of view; at > least this way it's easier to change to another BIGNUM implementation > (you'd only have to change this library instead of all those > programs). > > Besides, as has been discussed before, all the applications this is > used for in FreeBSD are not performance-critical. > The version of libgmp in the base system isn't that fast (see ChangeLog for libgmp verssion 3.1.1). If you want a better performance MP library, you'll install libgmp from the ports collection. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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