gbde performance question

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue May 20 07:03:39 PDT 2003


In message <20030520144927.I60060 at daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes:
>> >but i still don't see why the processes that are named gbde-something
>> >would take up _that_ much cpu time ... does that look reasonable and
>> >explicable to you?
>>
>> The crypto work _does_ take time.  I am only just starting to measure
>> how much for my GBDE paper now, so I don't really have anything
>> to compare your numbers with.
>
>well, from what i read, any modern cpu should be capable to do raw aes in
>the order of magnitude of hundreds of MB/s.

Don't confuse Mbit/sec and Mbyte/sec :-)

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