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authorVidya Ranganathan <vidya@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-06-06 07:56:07 -0500
committerAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-06-11 08:39:31 -0500
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PowerPC: Optimized strcmp for PPC64/POWER7
Optimization is achieved on 8 byte aligned strings with double word comparison using cmpb instruction. On unaligned strings loop unrolling is applied for Power7 gain.
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+2014-06-11 Vidya Ranganathan <vidya@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strcmp.S: New file: Optimization.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp.c: New file:
+ multiarch strcmp for PPC64.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-ppc64.S: New file.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-power7.S: New file.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile: Add strcmp
+ multiarch optimizations.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c:
+ (__libc_ifunc_impl_list): Likewise.
+
2014-06-11 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
* benchtests/scripts/validate_benchout.py: New script.