Alpha EV67 optimized Debian glibc package

[Falk Hueffner <hueffner@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hi,

I've built an Alpha EV67 (21264B) optimized glibc package. It would be
nice of somebody could check whether they get any performance
improvements, so we can judge whether this is worthwhile. In
particular, there should be speedups for the following functions:

ffs
memchr
memcpy
memset
sqrt
strcat
strchr
strcpy
strlen
strncat
strncpy
strrchr

The glibc patch is at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/03/msg00143.html.

The package is at
http://people.debian.org/~falk/libc6.1-alphaev67_2.3.2.ds1-16_alpha.deb

You can test it with LD_PRELOAD=/lib/ev67/libc-2.3.2.so program

Alternatively, also install the libc6.1 package from that site; it
contains a modified duynamic loader that uses the ev67 version
automatically if you have a 2.6.2, 2.4.25 or newer kernel.

This is all not very well tested, so don't try it on an important
system.

-- 
	Falk