On ven, 2014-12-12 at 23:53 +0100, Marcus Pollice wrote: > I'd be grateful if someone could point out the reason for the difference > and also how to compile binaries to achieve the same performance.
I know nothing about openssl in particular, but you may see improvements simply due to the flags you have used to compile it. The binaries shipped in Ubuntu must meet the lowest common denominator, that is they can't use any processor specific optimisations, otherwise the binaries would not run on all computers. For example, on my Gentoo machine everything is compiled for my specific processor model, meaning it uses various SSE and other processor specific instructions. There are also optimisations that may not be enabled on the Ubuntu builds for various reasons. For example, I use -fomit-frame-pointer which provides optimisations, but is probably not used in Ubuntu as debugging an application compiled this way is extremely difficult. Another is setting the optimisation level to 3 (-O3), this again would make it faster, but will cause some programs to malfunction, and developers typically don't allow bug reports if you've used this level. You can read more about the most common options here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GCC_optimization If you want to have everything optimised to your system, you may want to consider using Gentoo, you can set the flags you want to use when compiling, then whenever you install a program (akin to apt-get install) it will download the source and compile it to your specification.
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