Comment by ZiiS
This is benchmarking `hashlib.sha256` isn't that normally OpenSSL's heavily hand optimized assembly implementation, certainly isn't something written in Python?
This is benchmarking `hashlib.sha256` isn't that normally OpenSSL's heavily hand optimized assembly implementation, certainly isn't something written in Python?
It is the CPU-Intensive Workload Results; which compares Python versions and notes "Python 3.11 consistently outperformed newer versions across all memory configurations. It was 9-15% faster than Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14. This surprised me" The most obvious conclusion is the benchmark is simply flawed in some way; if this result is real, then it says something about how AWS compiled OpenSSL it says absolutely nothing about the speed of Python versions.
I think that's the CPU benchmark rather than the python benchmark -- and comparing CPU ARM64 vs x86_64 seems worthwhile.