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From: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] profiles/desc: descriptions for CPU_FLAGS_PPC use_expand
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:20:00
Message-Id: d9899870-1146-ad1e-7f84-c17df1c573c5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] profiles/desc: descriptions for CPU_FLAGS_PPC use_expand by "Michał Górny"
1 On 8/30/19 11:11 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 00:03 -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
3 <snip>
4 >> +altivec - Use the AltiVec instruction set
5 >> +vsx - Use the Vector Scalar Extension instruction set (POWER7 and later)
6 >> +vsx3 - Use the Vector Scalar Extension v.3 instruction set (POWER9 and later)
7 >
8 > Do all those flags have real use cases in ::gentoo? I'd really prefer
9 > not having more 'unused flag' warnings ;-).
10 >
11
12 yeah, I have mentioned possible users above and there are plenty I
13 haven't identified yet. patches to ebuilds will follow, I promise =)
14
15 for example x264 if built with proper flags gives a noticeable boost,
16 (at least 2x at encoding), totally worth it.
17
18 ppc will not have a lot of flags like on arm or x86, maybe a couple
19 more, but that's it for now.

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