[mpir-devel] Re: x86_64 cpuid

2009-03-17 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > I also wonder if there is a way to distinguish intel family 15 and 22? family=6 for core2 always (family=15 is p4) model=15 for "normal" core2 and xeon model=22 (=16h), for celeron (I assume core2-celeron) model=23 (=17h), for "extreme" core2,

[mpir-devel] Toom 4

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Hart
I'm starting a new thread for Toom related stuff, as our last thread got a bit messed up. :-) I did a calculation of how much better Toom 4 should be than Toom 3. But it didn't really show what I thought it would. My hypothesis was that for numbers of limbs that are a power of 2, Toom 4 should be

[mpir-devel] Re: x86_64 cpuid

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Hart
One of the issues which will confront us soon is the fact that Intel have stopped upping clock rates and have started introducing more cores, and AMD have followed suit. I predict that eventually we are going to want to start distinguishing these. Perhaps we need: k8, k8x2, , core, corex2, core2

[mpir-devel] Re: x86_64 cpuid

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Hart
For amd we'd have to have: K5, K6 (mmx), k62 (k6-2, mmx, 3dnow), k63 (k6-III, mmx, 3dnow), k7 (mmx, 3dnow), k7sse, k8 (all sse2), k8sse3, k10, geode? It looks to me like k9 never materialised, and if it did, it represents dual core AMD k8's. k11 is supposedly Turion Ultra. Bill. 2009/3/17 Bill

[mpir-devel] Re: x86_64 cpuid

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Hart
Jason, I had a look over this and it looks brilliant. This really deals with a number of tickets, which is great! Some comments: The name athlon seems inconsistent with k5, k6, k62, k63, k8, k10. It seems to me that Athlon and k7 are synonymous, so shouldn't we use the latter? I also wonder if

[mpir-devel] Re: SVN Setup Advice

2009-03-17 Thread Cactus
On Mar 17, 9:35 am, Cactus wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I desperately need some advice on my local SVN setup. > > Right now I have this pointed at the MPIR top level directory. This > has been tolerable until now but when I updated today it cost me 10% > of my monthly bandwidth allowance (not being at

[mpir-devel] SVN Setup Advice

2009-03-17 Thread Cactus
Hi Guys, I desperately need some advice on my local SVN setup. Right now I have this pointed at the MPIR top level directory. This has been tolerable until now but when I updated today it cost me 10% of my monthly bandwidth allowance (not being at University or being employed by a company I have