Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 11 June 2026 at 11:24 AM EDT. Page 4 of 9. 39 Comments.
👁 Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 256b Encryption. Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 was the fastest.
👁 Cryptsetup benchmark with settings of AES-XTS 256b Decryption. Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 was the fastest.
With the cryptsetup program shipped by Ubuntu, PBKDF2-SHA512 benefited from the amd64v3 build while most of the other algorithms tested were flat.
👁 Botan benchmark with settings of Test: Serpent/XTS, Decrypt. Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 was the fastest.
The Botan crypto library shipped by Ubuntu was seeing some performance benefits out of using the amd64v3 archive.