On 24 January 2018 at 17:32, Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> wrote:
> On 24/01/2018 16:07, 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel wrote: > > [snip] > > On a more optimistic note, the work that Jens Nurmann and I have > done in > > adding new assembler code for recent machine architectures is > available > > for those who are willing to work with the repository version of > MPIR. > > > > And it may well make sense to add the new functions to my repository > > anyway as it will at least mean that I can keep the repository > versions > > of both MPIR and FLINT for Windows x64 in a fully working state (the > > FLINT changes needed are very limited as discussed earlier). > > > > > > Was all Jens' Broadwell optimisation committed. The last I recall we > > were waiting for someone with a Broadwell to test and see which > > functions were faster than the current ones. This would have had to be > > done on a Linux system, since it isn't possible to get reliable timings > > on a Windows box, unfortunately. > > > > Or are you only talking about Skylake and Nehelem, which I think is in > > MPIR-3.0.0. > > I was thinking about Broadwell and Skylake but couldn't remember what > got in to MPIR-3 > Skylake got in, but Broadwell did not. There was an ongoing conversation between David and Jens about it. I think it petered out though. I can understand why given that I wasn't able to attend to their correspondence in a timely manner. Bill. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
