RSA performance on Athlon64 vs. Itanium

[J.A. Terranson]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Lucky Green wrote:

> I just picked up an Athlon64 3200+, which runs at a 2 GHz clock speed.
> Using the Red Hat for AMD64 beta and the version of OpenSSL that ships
> with that beta, I get 922 1024-bit RSA signs per second. This is a tad
> less RSA signatures per second than I have seen on an 800MHz Itanium
> using highly optimized assembler. That's rather poor performance on the
> Athlon64.
> 
> Are the figures that I am seeing typical for OpenSSL on the Athlon64?
> Has anybody here seen different figures using optimized code?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Lucky Green

Was there ever a reply to this?  If so, could someone forward it to me
off-list, as I missed it :-(

Thanks!

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Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
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