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Re: libmvec requires x86?
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: kb9vqf at pearsoncomputing dot net
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:07:27 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: libmvec requires x86?
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From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:58:18 -0600
> We cannot use modern x86 hardware for internal security reasons, and
> it came as something of a surprise that relatively advanced features
> of glibc are only supported on x86, even though functionally
> equivalent SIMD capabilities exist on other architectures (e,g,
> POWER8).
It should be a surprise at all, features get implemented because the
resources necessary to do so exist.
And x86 hands down gets the most developer resources.