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Official OpenSSL benchmarks: https://openssl-library.org/performance.html

OpenSSL 3.0 was catastrophic, but it looks like OpenSSL 3.5 isn't too bad.



I agree that it is great to see the improvements. However, in the absence of comparisons to other libraries, it is tough to see the real impact. Even a comparison to the 1.x version would be helpful.

The concern is that relative to 3.0, it is improved... but relative to 1.x or a different library, it is not scalable.


The problem is not the performance of the low-level crypto code IMHO, but how it interfaces with the rest, which is where you're crossing a myriad of locks (and atomic ops for newer versions) that cost a lot as soon as you're interested in using more than one CPU core :-/




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