Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Jared Lindsay <cinder.sub@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:44:06
Message-Id: e16d914c0507240042780f83e6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] x86_64 optimization patches for glibc. by Ian McCulloch
1 Back on to a different subject...has anyone looked at the libm
2 section? I am curious as to how much of a performance increase that
3 would add if we can get it working.
4
5 On 7/23/05, Ian McCulloch <ianmcc@××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Matt Randolph wrote:
9 >
10 > > Sean Johnson wrote:
11 > >
12 > > > LOL!
13 > > > That must be for the folk that don't mind patching glibc, but will get
14 > > > upset if memcpy does strange things. :)
15 > > >
16 > > >
17 > >
18 > > You try to do a good turn and they laugh at you. That'll teach me.
19 >
20 > Heh ;-) I would like to see a version of memcpy.c that DOES do something
21 > malicious, without being completely obvious. This isn't Windows, a
22 > seg-fault isn't going to take down the kernel, or corrupt the filesystem;)
23 >
24 > Cheers
25 > Ian
26 > --
27 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
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29 >
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] x86_64 optimization patches for glibc. Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@×××××.com>