At a previous job they tracked down some slow https performance in a game server to OpenSSL lib allocating/reallocation new buffers for each zip’d request. Patc

At a previous job they tracked down some slow https performance in a game server to OpenSSL lib allocating/reallocation new buffers for each zip’d request. Patching that gave a huge performance increase and saved them from buying some fancy $500k hardware to offload the https processing.