how long to keep support for gcc on x86?

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sun Jan 13 22:53:25 UTC 2013


On 13 January 2013 17:48, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> I already have a gcc compatible version of an improved AES-NI for
> amd64...  The real question is, do I improve things further by using
> intrinsics which means we can share code between amd64 and i386 and get
> great performance from both, or do I simply make a seperate version
> for i386 that is gcc compatible, but not as good performance...

Maybe throw the "very improved" version into a comment that can be
used later, when the compiler is not an issue?

-- 
Eitan Adler


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