[gnutls-devel] Automatic library initialization

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:14 +0100, Tim Rühsen wrote:

> To see what function calls takes how many cycles, I use (on Debian 
> SID, KDE):
> $ valgrind --tool=callgrind wget
> $ kcachegrind callgrind.out.xxxxx
> 
> Shows ~16.000.000 cycles.
> 
> Most (65%) of the time goes into _gnutls_rnd_init() which calls 
> wrap_nettle_rnd_init().

Interesting. That's should be the yarrow and salsa20 initialization for
the random number generation. That doesn't seem to be something we can
easily optimize unless we switch to different RNG.

I'll try to check whether there can be parts of the global init that
provide a significant optimization if moved to a static initialization.

regards,
Nikos