New comment by q66 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935#issuecomment-619029088 Comment: @the-maldridge It's not just about hand optimized, it's also about access to hardware crypto, which libressl outside of x86_64 does not have, which results in significantly poorer throughput 1) openbsd builds a lot fewer targets than Linux, e.g. they don't have 64-bit ppc of any kind 2) people using openbsd don't care about performance a whole lot, e.g. there is still no reasonable SMP in openbsd 3) openbsd still uses the perl infra from openssl to generate asm for targets they build, while libressl-portable just has the x86_64 ones generated ahead of time