Is RSA2048 signs/second a good measure of CPU core performance?
I've been reading up on ARM core architectures for the past few days, and I wanted to see just how wide the gap between efficiency, power, and prime cores really are on Android phones. I am dissatisfied by the tendency of common benchmarking apps to simply use the OS CPU scheduler to assign work to a CPU core. I want the ability to assign the benchmarking load to a specific core so that I can see the performance delta of the different cores. Just doing some cursory research, I stumbled upon openssl in termux and ran some tests using this command:
`taskset -c C openssl speed -elapsed -seconds 5 rsa2048`
C is the CPU core ID. The following is what I found:
At first glance, these results seem right to me. The more powerful cores are able to sign much faster. But my question is: is sign speed even a good measure of CPU core performance? Do these results actually mean anything? #hardware #technology source