[mpir-devel] Re: DDJ: A First Look at the Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni)

2009-04-08 Thread Carl Witty
On Apr 5, 10:00 pm, mabshoff wrote: > There is an somewhat interesting article about "A First Look at the > Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni)" at > >    http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/216402188 > > You might want to read the print version since that one is all on one > page. I

[mpir-devel] Re: minimality guarantee for new xgcd?

2009-01-13 Thread Carl Witty
On Jan 13, 2:38 am, ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com wrote: > > > The other issue here is that there are multiple algorithms here and it > > > is quite likely that very small examples will use the basic xgcd which > > > may well guarantee minimality. Only if you have say hundreds of > > > thousands of bi

[mpir-devel] Re: carry in

2008-11-29 Thread Carl Witty
On Nov 28, 5:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .align 16 > mpn_add_n: > mov $0,carryreg > .align 16 > mpn_add_nc: > here is the usual stuff > > Here we either align it and have to skip over 16 bytes (which is at least 1 > extra cycle) or we dont bother with the alignment for the _nc version , and

[mpir-devel] Re: NVIDIA Tesla

2008-11-24 Thread Carl Witty
On Nov 23, 7:43 pm, "Jason Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, after a bit more reading, I now think that bitwise shifting is > available.  I was confused because all the floating point operations > are explicitly listed whereas for the integer operations only the > "atomic" operations are