On Nov 1, 2007 5:33 PM, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was referring to something I read recently in a german computer > magazine tha the upcoming AMD CPUs have some kind of special 128 FP > instruction stuff (disclimer: I have no clue what exactly te stuff was)
It may be referring to the SSE5 instruction set... BTW, Sun engineers continue to add new features in the compiler for AMD: http://blogs.sun.com/tatkar/entry/sun_studio_patch_supports_barcelona Rayson > ... > ... if this stuff includes some kind of special instructions it may be > nice to reflect this via matching flags in the $ /usr/bin/isalist # > output. > > > There are some gotchas such as data alignment (though I think CR 6525798 > > addressed this) and > > dependencies but in general you will get performance boost without need > > to recompile. > > Ok... but see above... > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > -- > __ . . __ > (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 > (;O/ \/ \O;) > _______________________________________________ > > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
