[Help-gnutls] Re: GNUTLS vs OpenSSL

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Leblond <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> We have done some comparison between GNUTLS and openssl during our
> benchmark of NuFW.
>
> We have only had a switch to one part of the code and thus it only
> display a trend and not a performance comparison. We measure performance
> of a complex system (NuFW) not directly the performance of transfert.
>
> On Intel Centrino 1.6GHz, openssl outperfoms GNUTLS with a ratio of 15%.
>
> On quadri processor PowerPC 1.8GHz (ppc64 architecture) and quadri
> processor XEON 3GHz (x86_64 architecture), GNUTLS outperforms openssl
> with a ratio of 15%.
>
> Thus, it seems that results depends heavily on the architecture.

Did one of the numbers lack a zero or something?  Otherwise, it
doesn't seem like the results depend on the architecture at all.

/Simon