Re: openssl package with cpu optimized libraries released
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de> writes:
>
> > Optimisation is availlable at the moment for i486, i585, sparc-v9,
> > alpha-ev4 and ev5. For Details see README.optimizations.
> >
> > There are currently no optimized libraries for i686 (Pentium III etc.)
> > becaus of a bug in glibc (See
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161788&repeatmerged=yes)
> > A library in /usr/lib/i686 would be loaded on all i386 architectures.
> > Therefore i686 has to use i386 libraries at the moment.
>
> The bug is now resolved, so the current version of openssl includes
> i686 libraries again. Also I tuned the sparc optimisation for v9 and
> included one for v8 (although I don't know if the v8 directory is
> used). The v9 code has a speedup of about factor 10 !!
You can get rid of the v8 target. Debian-sparc will target v8 minimum by
the time woody releases anyway. gcc-3.2 will default to v8.
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