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Re: [PATCH 1/N] x86_64 vectorization support: vectorized math functions addition to Glibc
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, Matthew Fortune <Matthew dot Fortune at imgtec dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Andrew Senkevich <andrew dot n dot senkevich at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "igor dot zamyatin at intel dot com" <igor dot zamyatin at intel dot com>, "Melik-Adamyan, Areg" <areg dot melik-adamyan at intel dot com>, "jakub at redhat dot com" <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:04:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/N] x86_64 vectorization support: vectorized math functions addition to Glibc
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> Which has problem when one want to support both users with svml, amcl or
> nothing package maintainers for some reason do not want create three
> versions of same package.
I assume once Linux establishes a standard vectorized
math library (like this one), the other math libraries will follow
and start implementing compatible ABIs.
-Andi