[PYTHON-CRYPTO] SHA-1 benchmarks (was: HMAC module)

[Zooko]

These are all on the same machine just now.  I'm not sure if they are
really comparable.


First I copied Bram's Python script to measure the `sha' module.  I got a
vastly different result than he did:

MAIN imp:~$ python2.2
Python 2.2.1 (#1, May  3 2002, 23:19:03)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from time import time
>>> from sha import sha
>>> x = 'a' * 2 ** 20
>>> def test():
...     t = time()
...     for i in xrange(100):
...         sha(x).digest()
...     print 100.0/(time() - t)
...
>>> test()
18.208912899
>>>

(Bram got 1.3 as the result from the identical script.)


Then I ran `openssl speed sha':

MAIL imp:~/playground/mnet/extsrc/tst$ openssl speed sha
Doing sha1 for 3s on 8 size blocks: 902056 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 454294 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 195575 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 59617 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 7966 sha1's in 3.00s
OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001
built on: Sat Jan  5 19:53:45 CET 2002
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DNO_IDEA -DNO_MDC2 -DNO_RC5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type              8 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
sha1              2405.48k     9691.61k    16689.07k    20349.27k    21752.49k


Then I ran `cryptest.exe b' (from Crypto++ 4.2), and it reported
this:

Algorithm       Bytes Processed Time Taken      Megabytes(2^20 bytes)/Second
SHA-1           4194304         0.720           5.556


I doubt that these are comparable numbers.  For one thing, Bram's machine and
mine are probably about the same speed, so him getting 1.3 and me getting 18.2
is pretty suspicious.


Regards,

Zooko

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