[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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