Re: GLIBC - I would like to contribute some platform optimizations

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Sunday 02 September 2007, Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
> I would like to contribute some performance optimizations to the GLIBC.
> I did some work on memory functions as e.g memcpy.
> My results are very promising and with small changes e.g. memcpy could
> get up to 50% more throughput on many platforms for transfer > 1KB.
> (Tested on AMD/K7/K8 and PowerPC 603/750/7447/970)
>
> Can you please tell me the procedures to be able to contribute the
> optimizations to you?

(1) post the actual changes to the mailing list
(2) post data supporting your improvement claims and the methodology for 
collecting said data
(3) significant changes require FSF copyright assignment
-mike

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