Performance

[Marc Mutz]

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On Monday 19 November 2001 18:43, Lee McKenna wrote:
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> For the record book :) I ran the following tests using gpg 1.0.6,
> 1024bit key, on a PIII/800, 256MB RAM, SCSI/IDE RAID, stock FreeBSD
> 4.3 release, on a file size 3363088179 (3.3GB).  CAST5 is the
> fastest, 3DES slowest.  All others are relatively close.
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If you use gnupg from rpm's (or equivalent on FreeBSD), you could try 
recompiling gpg with --march=pentiumpro. This should speed things up a 
bit (maybe even twice; by base64 encoder doubled it's speed by using 
this option). Alternatively, you could use icc, if that runs under 
FreeBSD. That should give you another 15-20%.

Marc

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