Inquire about the performance of gcrypt on ARM architecture

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-11-14 Mizar Zhou via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,


> In my tests, using the same Libgcrypt version on ARMv8 results in
> performance that is three times slower, or even more, compared to
> Intel. Is this expected behavior? If not, are there any
> performance-related configuration options or build switches that I
> might have overlooked?

> I’m using Libgcrypt 1.10.0 in ARMv8, compiled with the default settings.
[...]

How about testing with a non-ancient version of libgcrypt?

Also: The performance of the two machines (arm and x86) might not be
identical.

cu Andreas