[PATCH] PPC64 Use hardware sqrt.

[Kumar Gala]

Understand, but future PPC64 from Freescale (former Motorola SPS) are 
unlikely to implement it.

- kumar

On Apr 30, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Steve Munroe wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote on 04/29/2004 05:55:21 PM:
>
>> I do not think its fair to say that all future PPC64 processors will
>> implement the fsqrt instruction.
>>
>> - kumar
>>
>
> All server (i/pSeries) and 970 models do and will. The silicon required
> for this is so small as to be lost in the noise of a modern chip 
> design.
>
> So I will take 3-5X performance gain.
>
> Steven J. Munroe
> Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
> IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center