Re: Atlas-3.2.1

[Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>]

BTW, Adam, if memory serves, you are a PPC user?  G4?  Do you have any
feel for whether an altivec optimized atlas for the g4 would be of
interest to any Debian users?  I've got the kernel, and can build it,
and can get the package to do likewise, but it will require at least
an assembler that knows altivec to compile, and preferably also the
altivec patched gcc, either as the default gcc, or as an optional
gcc.  Would you have any interest in packaging the latter?  It can be
found at www.altivec.org.  Would then be quite straightforward to get
the optimized atlas for the g4.  The assembly route would take a bit
more work, but would not be insuperable, if there was interest.

(For those interested,  altivec is to g4 as sse is to Intel Pentium --
vecotrized cpu instructions which increase performance in many cases
by a factor of 2 or 3 over standard atlas performance.)

Take care,


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