Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 01:17:45 +0100 From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: sha256 speed Message-ID: <1d3be715-acc7-4879-02a2-4fddea802027@gmx.net>
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Hello, On my Ryzen the sha256 command is much slower than openssl dgst -sha256. For large files, openssl is more than 7 times faster in practice. You can also test it with the builtin benchmarks: sha256 -t openssl speed sha256 I think the reason is that openssl supports the SHA CPU extensions whereas libmd (used by sha256) does not. Any chance we can make the base sha256 faster? I guess there is some reason why we use libmd instead of openssl. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2651 looks related but not sure it's still relevant.
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