[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#881020: code not parallelized

[Andreas Glaeser]

In my particular case this is about DSA-signatures in Thunderbird with Enigmail. These are
very slow to re-check for messages with large attachments. I have a low-end 25-W PC only
some notebooks and other embedded devices may also be affected by this problem.
When there are 3 to 4 compute-cores available and only one of them is used for
crypto-operations, obviously things are going slower than they could be.
Concerns about parallelizing crypto-code are generally understandable, because people
don't want to give away code-integrity and -safety for speed and auto-parallelizing does
not seem recommendable.
In spite of that, things should not deliberately be additionally worsened by
double-checking without any real need to do so.


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