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RE: [PING] Re: String Functions for x86-64

From: "Menezes, Evandro" <evandro dot menezes at amd dot com>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: "Rene Rebe" <rene at exactcode dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper at redhat dot com>, "Meissner, Michael" <michael dot meissner at amd dot com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:16:36 -0500
Subject: RE: [PING] Re: String Functions for x86-64

HJ, 

> > Just a thought: are its caches sizes being correctly detected in
> > dl-machine.h?
> 
> I think it may have something to with SW prefetch. Nocona/Merom
> don't like it much.

These results (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00116.html) were on a Nocona, so I guess that it's at least better than the current routines.

BTW, for the sake of speed, could you focus on existing products as of May, when I fist posted the routines?

Thanks,

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Evandro Menezes               AMD            Austin, TX

References:
- Re: [PING] Re: String Functions for x86-64
  - From: H. J. Lu

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