A test I thought could be interesting to get some (diffuse) idea of the processing power of the iPhone 4: Mijails-iPhone:~ mobile$ uname -a Darwin Mijails-iPhone 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Wed Oct 20 20:14:45 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.58.28~3/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X iPhone3,1 arm N90AP Darwin Mijails-iPhone:~ mobile$ openssl speed To get the most accurate results, try to run this program when this computer is idle. Doing md2 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 113903 md2's in 2.93s Doing md2 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 59789 md2's in 2.96s Doing md2 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 20740 md2's in 2.94s Doing md2 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 5722 md2's in 2.95s Doing md2 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 741 md2's in 2.95s Doing md4 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 962184 md4's in 2.99s Doing md4 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 808365 md4's in 2.94s Doing md4 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 553565 md4's in 2.94s Doing md4 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 251644 md4's in 2.96s D...
Running away from the comfort zone