Low level ops?

[Stef Bon]

Op zo 10 jun. 2018 om 23:05 schreef Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi>:
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> That comparison is outdated, gcrypt 1.6 fixed many of the overhead issues in encryption/decryption/digest code paths. I did reran part of the tests from panthema.net with libgcrypt 1.5 and 1.6 in 2013, the result pdfs are available at: http://jukivili.kapsi.fi/gcrypt/
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Ah. Very good.
Now that's clear should someone look at the original question?
Can "low level" calls (stripped from checks) be an performance improvement?
(leaving these checks to the application programmer>>>)

Stef