libgocryptfs/internal/stupidgcm/prefer.go

package stupidgcm

import (
	"golang.org/x/sys/cpu"
)

// PreferOpenSSL tells us if OpenSSL is faster than Go GCM on this machine.
//
// Go GCM is only faster if the CPU either:
//
// 1) Is X86_64 && has AES instructions && Go is v1.6  or higher
// 2) Is ARM64  && has AES instructions && Go is v1.11 or higher
//    (commit https://github.com/golang/go/commit/4f1f503373cda7160392be94e3849b0c9b9ebbda)
//
// See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/wiki/CPU-Benchmarks
// for benchmarks.
func PreferOpenSSL() bool {
	if BuiltWithoutOpenssl {
		return false
	}
	// Safe to call on other architectures - will just read false.
	if cpu.X86.HasAES || cpu.ARM64.HasAES {
		// Go stdlib is probably faster
		return false
	}
	// Openssl is probably faster
	return true
}