someone should do some real testing.  this is what i get from "openssl speed"
using 'native' (64 bit sparc, no special compiler options):



OpenSSL 0.9.6g 9 Aug 2002
built on: NetBSD 1.6I
options:bn(32,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) (NetBSD nb3)
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type              8 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
md2                247.08k      680.76k      916.35k     1004.09k     1031.75k
mdc2                 0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
md4               4560.10k    20584.97k    35019.00k    42595.36k    45408.47k
md5               3387.74k    14127.03k    23172.49k    27666.85k    29300.54k
hmac(md5)         1309.33k     7256.18k    16690.26k    18601.10k    28855.65k
sha1              1627.51k     4221.74k     8840.17k    12161.61k    13652.44k
rmd160            1346.39k     2606.79k     6492.59k    10331.01k    12476.43k
rc4              20580.08k    25461.53k    26448.75k    26682.58k    26422.58k
des cbc           3792.67k     4083.72k     4121.52k     4136.13k     4132.88k
des ede3          1451.83k     1498.84k     1502.53k     1506.25k     1505.09k
idea cbc             0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
rc2 cbc           4301.95k     4623.95k     4667.78k     4678.17k     4678.72k
rc5-32/12 cbc        0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
blowfish cbc      6523.31k     7170.48k     7266.32k     7296.73k     7485.55k
cast cbc          5973.51k     6801.48k     6983.05k     6983.58k     6965.95k
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa  512 bits   0.0184s   0.0017s     54.4    594.1
rsa 1024 bits   0.1063s   0.0057s      9.4    174.9
rsa 2048 bits   0.6269s   0.0210s      1.6     47.7
rsa 4096 bits   5.2136s   0.0780s      0.2     12.8
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
dsa  512 bits   0.0170s   0.0212s     58.9     47.2
dsa 1024 bits   0.0571s   0.0700s     17.5     14.3
dsa 2048 bits   0.2036s   0.2542s      4.9      3.9


and using a sparc userland i have just built on my mac, i chroot'ed
/bin/sh into the $DESTDIR and simply ran "openssl speed":


OpenSSL 0.9.6g 9 Aug 2002
built on: NetBSD 1.6J
options:bn(32,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,int) des(idx,cisc,16,long) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) (NetBSD nb3)
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type              8 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
md2                327.47k      910.31k     1229.32k     1346.94k     1386.40k
mdc2                 0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
md4               5299.85k    23867.54k    41527.84k    51063.32k    54657.21k
md5               3997.55k    17854.95k    30420.23k    37049.84k    39548.91k
hmac(md5)         1312.52k     8288.85k    20400.31k    32223.40k    38746.61k
sha1              2555.63k     8630.29k    15487.22k    19393.56k    20911.58k
rmd160            1564.85k     4031.39k     9163.19k    13436.62k    15542.24k
rc4              15068.71k    18376.93k    18812.48k    18926.21k    18774.35k
des cbc           5678.09k     6915.56k     7095.12k     7139.61k     7126.65k
des ede3          2426.77k     2602.72k     2622.96k     2627.35k     2626.94k
idea cbc             0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
rc2 cbc           4864.71k     5286.29k     5346.64k     5382.64k     5355.48k
rc5-32/12 cbc        0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00
blowfish cbc     10285.20k    12357.41k    12567.48k    12644.75k    13261.73k
cast cbc          6941.14k     8338.45k     8525.29k     8478.86k     8752.82k
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa  512 bits   0.0654s   0.0072s     15.3    138.0
rsa 1024 bits   0.4606s   0.0262s      2.2     38.2
rsa 2048 bits   3.1597s   0.0978s      0.3     10.2
rsa 4096 bits  22.7533s   0.4062s      0.0      2.5
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
dsa  512 bits   0.0724s   0.0906s     13.8     11.0
dsa 1024 bits   0.2575s   0.3218s      3.9      3.1
dsa 2048 bits   1.0355s   1.0621s      1.0      0.9


i believe in all cases "bigger is better".  there are two very strange
observations here.  for all the hash & cipher functions, the 32 bit code
ran faster by about 1/3rd pretty much across the board.  however, for
the signers (rsa/dsa) the 32 bit code is about 4 times slower!

i'm confused by the above.  i do note that they have some fairly different
openssl options?  perhaps that is simply the issue.


.mrg.