Re: zlib NEON improvements

2011-05-01 Thread Jan Seiffert
2011/5/2 Michael Hope : [snip] > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Michael Hope > Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Zlib-devel] [3/8][RFC V3 Patch] Add special ARM Adler32 version > To: zlib-de...@madler.net > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jan Seiffert > wrote

Re: zlib NEON improvements

2011-05-01 Thread Jan Seiffert
2011/5/2 Michael Hope : > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jan Seiffert > wrote: >> 2011/5/2 Michael Hope : >> Hi Michael, Linaro Devs >> >>>  I see similar numbers. >> >> Great to hear ;) >> Means i'm not totally on the wrong track > > Note that I've sent the results to zlib-dev.  The copy to lin

Re: zlib NEON improvements

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Hope
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jan Seiffert wrote: > 2011/5/2 Michael Hope : > Hi Michael, Linaro Devs > >>  I see similar numbers. > > Great to hear ;) > Means i'm not totally on the wrong track Note that I've sent the results to zlib-dev. The copy to linaro-dev was forwarded on rather than c

zlib NEON improvements

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Hope
Jan Seiffert has been looking into vectorising the adler32 routine in zlib. On the A9 there's a 3.0 x improvement to be had on blocks that fit in the L1 cache and a 2.1 x improvement for larger blocks. See: http://mail.madler.net/pipermail/zlib-devel_madler.net/2011-May/002556.html for the work