[csw-maintainers] assembler in shared libraries

[James Lee]

On 02/06/09, 22:19:19, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote regarding
Re: [csw-maintainers] assembler in shared libraries:

> > --- brutal kludge --- to use explicitly gld on i386, thus having the
> > best performance for the platform; for sparc, the project doesn't have
> > assembler crafted code.

> Thanks for your effort, I have a similar problem with libgmp, which
> also has assembler optimizations for x86.

Are you doing this because you believe it's better or because you
proved it's better?

I had a similar situation (with mesa3d) and, after fighting to get
it to compile, the assembler was slower.



James.