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RE: [PATCH, v3] ARM: Integrate Cortex-A15 optimized memcpy using NEON/VFP.
- From: "Schwarz, Konrad" <konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>, Ramana Radhakrishnan <Ramana dot Radhakrishnan at arm dot com>, "newlib at sourceware dot org" <newlib at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:13:55 +0000
- Subject: RE: [PATCH, v3] ARM: Integrate Cortex-A15 optimized memcpy using NEON/VFP.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: newlib-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:newlib-owner@sourceware.org]
> On Behalf Of Richard Earnshaw
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] ARM: Integrate Cortex-A15 optimized memcpy
> using NEON/VFP.
> Everything you're talking about here is for full OS-based systems with
> context switching. Since Newlib is primarily (outside of Cygwin) a
> library for bare metal systems, surely we should provide developers
> with ability to chose. Given that the code provides three variants for
> different configurations, I don't really see what you are arguing
> about, unless it is that we shouldn't give users a choice.
I'm worried that the floating-point version will be used as
the default.
Thanks,
Konrad Schwarz