[openssl-users] OpenSSL Release Strategy and Blog

[Ken Goldman]

On 12/24/2014 5:46 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> Here's another counterpoint: when those structures are made opaque,
> that means we have to go to the memory manager for a struct that could
> otherwise be stack based. And we have to free it. That can slow things
> down considerably.

My intuition says that a malloc will be down in the noise compared to 
the RSA operation itself.

When I profile, I find that my entire program takes negligible time 
compared to an RSA operation.