[Python-Dev] windows 2.5 build: use OpenSSL for hashlib [bug 1535502] (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 8 01:46:13 CEST 2006

Gregory P. Smith schrieb:

hashlib's OpenSSL implementation on windows comes in the form of a 300k hashlib.pyd library.

What do you mean by "comes"? I can't find any _hashlib.vcproj file inside the PCbuild directory.

I believe that the performance of the OpenSSL routines depends on the way OpenSSL was built, e.g. whether the assembler implementations are used or not. Somebody would have to check, but I doubt they are. That'd be unfortunate as that negatively impacts the socket ssl module as well. OpenSSL should always be built with the assembler implementations.

But Visual Studio doesn't ship with an assembler! So how could I build it?

Regards, Martin

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