Hi everyone,
I'd like to announce the public release of libfreevec, after a long
period of development, frustration and a mix of success/failures
stories. After many rewrites, I can finally present something that
can at least be used with mostly good results.
First, a short info:
libfreevec is a free (LGPL) library with hand-optimized replacement
routines for GLIBC, such as memcpy(), strlen(), etc. These routines
have been written specifically to take advantage of the AltiVec
(a.k.a Velocity Engine or VMX), and will only work on processors that
include this unit. This means they will not work on older processors,
such as 603, 604, 750 (G3) or the POWER family of CPUs.
Check the site for more information, and download the source (soon a
Debian package will be available):
http://freevec.org/
Thanks to Genesi for sponsoring this effort and for creating the ODW,
a great development platform!
Regards
Konstantinos Margaritis
PS. For the impatient amongst you, make sure you set
CFLAGS="-O3 -maltivec -funroll-loops -DHAVE_ALTIVEC_H"
to compile for max performance.
PS. I'm not subscribed to the list, actually I was before, but sth
happened and I got unsubscribed :-/
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