[WBEL-devel] Re: openssl security update needed

[Milan Keršláger]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:49:07PM -0600, John Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Lamar Owen wrote:
> 
> > More specifically, most are built with '-march=i386 -mcpu=i686' which both 
> > optimizes for i686 instruction ordering but can still be run on earlier 
> > CPU's.  The -march=i386 makes it an '.i386.rpm' but that's OK, since the 
> > instruction ordering is still optimized for i686.  It is a tad confusing, but 
> > it works, and the performance benefits of '-march=i686 -mcpu=i686' are 
> > miniscule for OpenSSL.  
> 
> Actually openssl is one of the few packages where it makes a major
> difference, which is why both WBEL and RHEL include both an i386 and a
> i686 package.  Big enough performance difference I could build the i686
> package from my hotel normally, but the i386 package sits so long during
> the regression tests their NAT box kept closing out my ssh connection.  
> Finally had to use nohup and let it build in the background.  Openssl has

Try screen. This is more powerfull utility than nohup.

> hand tuned assembly for the i686 platform but other platforms have only
> the stock C codepath.

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