GPG & Floating point?

[Alan Watt]

Can anybody answer the question whether GPG uses any floating point 
instructions during decryption?

I'm running some performance tests on a 4-core SPARC T-2000 verses my 
current production environment, and GPG decryption performance is 
nowhere near as improved as I would expect.  The actual performance I 
get per thread is about equal to an old 296 MHz Ultra-SPARC II 
processor.  In most other tasks, the T-2000 is much, much faster.

Since all the cores on the T-2000 chip share the same FPU, any 
significant use of floating point basically throttles the chip down to a 
single thread.

Thanks

    Alan Watt
    Alan.Watt at McKesson.Com