Re: AES performance

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

>     One question that has been nagging in the back of my mind is, what 
> is the quality of the new C3 like, in general?

The machines we have run perfectly.  At the same clock, a C3 is not
quite the same performance as something else, but then again, half of
the machines I am using don't have cpu fans.

> The numbers you guys 
> have been getting from the C3 for AES are incredible, but historically 
> the C3 has had some reliability problems.  You guys seem to have been 
> dealing with it a lot lately, so do you (or anyone else on the team) 
> have any words about the overall quality of the new C3?

I've never seen one of them crash.