On Jun 9, 1:37 pm, Jason <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote: > Hi > > Now that 2.4 is almost ready to go , here's some ideas for mpir-2.5 > > 1) Release on 1st September > > 2) upgrade internals if needed ie yasm,autotools,gnu config > > 3) New x64 assembler code > > 4) remove explicit support for old cpus sh,m68k,alpha?
There are few cpu's which I think MPIR has not been tested on mpn/sh see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH This architecture has been expanded to 64bit :) , but the only asm code MPIR has is sh2 which is used in automotive apps :( mpn/m68k see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000_family The last incarnation of this family was approx equal to a pentium , and considering the comments from the readme "The code herein is old and poorly maintained. If somebody really cared, it could be optimized substantially. " mpn/thumb see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb-2#Thumb-2 This was a variant of the ARM chips with a compressed instruction stream , and we only have add/sun.asm anyway and how optimized is the old code for the current microarchitecture of ARM chips? For MPIR-2.5 I'm going to remove all explicit support for the above arches , generic C will of course work for them and at least it's been tested. mpn/alpha see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_CPU GCC-farm's alphaev56 has been down for ages , and thats the only one I know of , and 56 is OLD , another dead server chip (replace by the itanium....) , there is considerable work been done for it though , it does seem a waste. The advantage of turning to generic C for the alpha , is that quite lot of simplification of the autotools configure can be done :) ie a lot of special case code for something we never use and that gets in the way whenever we try to simplify things. For MPIR-2.5 I'm pretty sure this should be removed as well , it's a little more contentious than the other three and if you object speak up. All the other specific arches we do test on , although I haven't checked any sub-arches. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
