Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > ... it may be nice to see the new AMD64 128bit floating-point stuff > > supported in Solaris... may be a usefull for HPC customers... :-) > > There is no need to change anything in software to take advantage of > wider path (128bit) in FP unit, > if that's what you are referring to.
I was referring to something I read recently in a german computer magazine tha the upcoming AMD CPUs have some kind of special 128 FP instruction stuff (disclimer: I have no clue what exactly te stuff was) ... ... if this stuff includes some kind of special instructions it may be nice to reflect this via matching flags in the $ /usr/bin/isalist # output. > There are some gotchas such as data alignment (though I think CR 6525798 > addressed this) and > dependencies but in general you will get performance boost without need > to recompile. Ok... but see above... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list [email protected]
