[aclug-L] Alpha rc5/des benchmarks

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somebody was asking for this info at the meeting last night.  As I
explained, RC5 is most efficient on PowerPC and x86 architectures, because
it uses an obscure operation that only is present on those chips.  Here are
the results from a 600MHz Alpha, 4MB cache:

Benchmarking RC5 with 10000000 tests:
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%.....60%.....70%.....80%.....90%....
Completed in 0.00:00:19.74 [506496.16 keys/sec]
Benchmarking DES with 20000000 tests:
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%.....60%.....70%.....80%.....90%..
Completed in 0.00:00:03.01 [6947432.58 keys/sec]

Note that this is not really a fair benchmark of overall system speed.  If
you are looking at buying a system, take a look at the SPECint95 and
SPECfp95 results for prospective machines.

John

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