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On 01/14/15 10:16, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:58:21 +0100 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Any specific comments? I can handle x86 but I'd appreciate specific |
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>> arch teams replying about more exotic arches. |
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> +1 |
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> i like the idea, but with a list of useflags that would get converted |
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> this could "reach" more people i think |
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This sounds good to me too. Expansions to the base instruction set |
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architecture is something more pertinent to the intel family going back |
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to the pentium II days with mmx afaik and multiplying like rabbits every |
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since. There is neon for arm and I don't know of any for mips or ppc. |
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Would this approach clean up some of the masking? Eg. I hate having to |
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mask sse and friends in base/use.mask and then unmask them in |
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arch/amd64/use.mask. I'm not sure if there's a technique to make a use |
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expand flags relevant only for a particular profile. |
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