[RFC] Implementing inet_pton4 and inet_pton6 on x86 using AVX512 Icelake instructions

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 05/05/26 11:32, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 10:32 AM Shreesh Adiga
> <16567adigashreesh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was able to implement inet_pton4 and inet_pton6 using AVX512 instructions on my Zen4 desktop
> 
> That is a nice academic exercise but I don't believe these functions
> are ever hot enough to justify the burden of maintaining yet another
> version of them.

I agree, this would also require a lot of extra support to be proper implemented
(ifunc wrappers, extra sysdeps overrides).