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Comment by retrovm

You know I think that cloudflare blog post is a great example of the engineering approach behind boringssl. It's optimized for actual workloads, where you decrypt or authenticate a short message and then move on to different activities, and engaging AVX512 doesn't actually pay off in reality. OpenSSL is optimized to produce the biggest number from `openssl speed` so of course in that light it makes perfect sense to enable AVX512. But if you're trying to use these libraries in realistic workloads you will begin to appreciate the boringssl approach.
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