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Date:      Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:01:36 +0300
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 SIMD libc work has landed
Message-ID:  <CALH631=kOBf=2N7E4pjBQcGXG%2BE4474_yttv33Z5A=3GRzTwjA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 5:38=E2=80=AFPM Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>=
 wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I am happy to announce that the FreeBSD Foudation sponsored amd64 libc
> SIMD enhancement work has landed in CURRENT following extensive testing.
>
> Big thanks to all those who assisted in testing and reviewing the
> changes, especially to mjg@ and kib@.

Congratulations on concluding this project.

> If there are any problems resulting from this changeset, please do not
> hesitate to file a bug report.

So, to try this out it is enough to just "git pull && make buildworld
&& make buildkernel" ?

> ... at run time by setting the environment variable ARCHLEVEL to "scalar"
> (using hand-written scalar assembly implementations instead) or at
> compile time by building world WITHOUT_MACHDEP_OPTIMIZATIONS.

Whoa, I'm excited to see the knob I introduced getting more use cases.



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