New comment by the-maldridge on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935#issuecomment-618853743 Comment: I believe q66 is referring to openssl containing large amounts of hand optimized assembly for both modern and long dead platforms which accelerates certain arithmetic functions. LibreSSL works primarily on x86_64. Perhaps a better question to ask about this is why Void is seeing poor performance on non-x86 platforms. OpenBSD builds on a number of different targets, and there aren't reports of poor performance that I'm aware of from a very cursory search.