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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@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 07:29:59
Message-Id: a23116f72c88e3b6482f5f0ef97c3c51442f8f66.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] profiles/desc: descriptions for CPU_FLAGS_PPC use_expand by Georgy Yakovlev
1 On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 00:19 -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
2 > On 8/30/19 11:11 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 00:03 -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
4 > <snip>
5 > > > +altivec - Use the AltiVec instruction set
6 > > > +vsx - Use the Vector Scalar Extension instruction set (POWER7 and later)
7 > > > +vsx3 - Use the Vector Scalar Extension v.3 instruction set (POWER9 and later)
8 > >
9 > > Do all those flags have real use cases in ::gentoo? I'd really prefer
10 > > not having more 'unused flag' warnings ;-).
11 > >
12 >
13 > yeah, I have mentioned possible users above and there are plenty I
14 > haven't identified yet. patches to ebuilds will follow, I promise =)
15 >
16 > for example x264 if built with proper flags gives a noticeable boost,
17 > (at least 2x at encoding), totally worth it.
18 >
19 > ppc will not have a lot of flags like on arm or x86, maybe a couple
20 > more, but that's it for now.
21 >
22
23 Just to be clear: we're not talking about -m compiler flags, are we?
24 'cause those should be handled via CFLAGS.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny

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