[PATCH] [x86_32] Don't use SSE4_2 instructions on Intel Silvermont Micro Architecture.

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 15:12:00 GMT 2013


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Liubov Dmitrieva
<liubov.dmitrieva@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't look very good when I summarized the results because there
> are too many small lengths cases in your benchmarks.
> And small cases are more inaccurate.
> Ssse3 looks asymptotically faster. Actually it would better to use
> sse2 unaligned versions for Silvermont but we don't have it in glibc
> at the moment.
> Bot sse4_2 and ssse3 are not the best for SLM.
>

Why is SSE4.2 strcasecmp disabled only for libc.a,
not libc.so? Libc.so is used by most of applications.


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H.J.



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