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Re: [PATCH] Improves __ieee754_exp() performance by greater than 5x on sparc/x86.

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Patrick McGehearty <patrick dot mcgehearty at oracle dot com>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:22:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improves __ieee754_exp() performance by greater than 5x on sparc/x86.
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Joseph Myers wrote:

> Does this patch remove all calls to __slowexp?  If so, I'd expect 
> slowexp.c to be removed as part of the patch (including 
> architecture-specific / multiarch variants, and Makefile references to 
> special options etc. for building slowexp.c).

Just to add: one of the less obvious places needing updating on removing 
slowexp.c is the manual/probes.texi documentation of the probe points 
therein.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- [PATCH] Improves __ieee754_exp() performance by greater than 5x on sparc/x86.
  - From: Patrick McGehearty
- Re: [PATCH] Improves __ieee754_exp() performance by greater than 5x on sparc/x86.
  - From: Joseph Myers

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