• Craig Black (10/10) Aug 27 2008 When talking to Walter about optimizations on modern hardware, bearophil...
• Craig Black (2/2) Aug 27 2008 The second link should read:
• Don (4/17) Aug 27 2008 It's GPLed. Also the random number generators can't be used in gambling

"Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> writes:

When talking to Walter about optimizations on modern hardware, bearophile 
provided the folowing link to a manual about hardware optimization:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/

The author of the manual also provides a free library called "asmlib":

http://www.agner.org/optimize/

This library provides optimized routines for things like memcpy and strcmp. 
He provides benchmarks that show that they perform better than the 
Microsoft, GNU, Intel equivalents when running on modern CPU's.  Should this 
library be considered for use by Phobos/Tango?

-Craig

"Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> writes:

The second link should read:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/asmlib.zip 

Don <nospam nospam.com.au> writes:

Craig Black wrote:
 When talking to Walter about optimizations on modern hardware, bearophile 
 provided the folowing link to a manual about hardware optimization:
 
 http://www.agner.org/optimize/
 
 The author of the manual also provides a free library called "asmlib":
 
 http://www.agner.org/optimize/
 
 This library provides optimized routines for things like memcpy and strcmp. 
 He provides benchmarks that show that they perform better than the 
 Microsoft, GNU, Intel equivalents when running on modern CPU's.  Should this 
 library be considered for use by Phobos/Tango?

It's GPLed. Also the random number generators can't be used in gambling 
applications (!) So unsuitable for a standard library. Can use the 
ideas, though <g>.