[PING] [PATCH] faster string operations for bulldozer (take 2)

Roland McGrath roland@hack.frob.com
Sat Apr 27 06:50:00 GMT 2013


> > +      /* Assume unaligned loads are fast when avx is available.  */

AVX in caps.

> > +      if ((ecx & bit_AVX) != 0)
> > +	__cpu_features.feature[index_Fast_Rep_String]
> > +	  |= ( bit_Fast_Unaligned_Load);

Drop the excess parens (and the excess space).

I didn't follow whatever previous discussion there was about the substance
of this.  What is the rationale/evidence that AVX is (and always will be)
correlated with efficiency of unaligned loads?



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