Can SPECweb99_SSL results be meaningfully compared to SPECweb99 results?
No. Although the benchmarks have similarities, results from one cannot be compared to the other, since SPECweb99_SSL adds SSL encryption to the SPECweb99 workload. However for the same system, the differences between the SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL results could be used to help evaluate the performance impact of SSL encryption on the server. Public comparisions of SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL results would be considered a violation of the run and reporting rules.
