Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/15/21 5:49 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > I disagree too because the performance of software with AltiVec support isn't > as > high as expected. I tested it a lot because we have AltiVec and Non-Altivec > machines > here. We changed to Non-AltiVec compiled software a while ago. It depends

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 7/13/21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I wasn't really a fan of that change but my stance is that we should use > AltiVec > in packages where it makes sense as the majority of the ppc64 port users > will > have a machine that suppport AltiVec. please *do not* do this. we are designing

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread Christian Zigotzky
On 15 July 2021 at 2:04 pm, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Le mardi 13 juillet 2021 à 21:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : Please go ahead and enabled AltiVec as I don't think it makes much sense to use BLAS on machines without any SIMD support. If any user complains about compatibility

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/15/21 2:04 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> Please go ahead and enabled AltiVec as I don't think it makes much sense to >> use BLAS >> on machines without any SIMD support. If any user complains about >> compatibility issues, >> please feel free to bring up the issue here again. > > I think

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 13 juillet 2021 à 21:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > On 7/13/21 1:55 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > The wiki page that synthesizes architecture specificities indicates > > that Altivec is included in the baseline for the ppc64 port: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Architectu