Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: glibc 2, Linux 2.x and the world of many patches! | Date | 31 Jul 1997 11:46:23 +0200 |
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Teunis Peters <teunis@usa.net> writes: > > Query : Why can't glibc have an asm/tree just like linux for > system-specific inline optimizations? [it's not like this is hard to do > or anything and the specific functions needed are MOST portable and stable > :] > It'd be nice if glibc could do pentium-memcpy :) > It has: it's called sysdeps/i386. Glibc 2.1 has/will have the option to auto-preload a library with machine-specific optimizations, so that you can compile glibc for i386+ and still get your Pentium memcpy.
> Umm - I know of no other lists than linux-kernel so I'm kinda, uh, posting > here... Is there a way of finding out others? (I have no usenet <sigh>) > There's linux-gcc, and there's libc-hacker@gnu.ai.mit.edu. The latter is strongly recommended if you want to participate in glibc mangling. ;-)
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