From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Grundmann Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:23:00 +0000 Subject: VIS Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hi ! I am computing RC5DES contest. I had a client on ultrasparc solaris which was for times as fast as the sparc client. I heard it could have to do something with the VIS instruction set which is implemented in the ultrasparc. I downloaded a SDK from sun but that requires sun cc 4.x or higher . Is it Possible to use that VIS instruction set with gcc ? ( Do you make use of that already ? ) . Is there a c library for gcc ? Does anybody know something about VIS ? The RC5DES code is nearly as double as fast on a ultrasparc I 167 Mhz workstation than an 300 MHz Pentium II ( with MMX enhanced client ) . But it doesn't run on my ultralinux maschine [grundman@hal7 rc5]$ ./rc5des ld.so.1: ./rc5des: fatal: libpthread.so.1: can't open file: errno=2 Killed [grundman@hal7 rc5]$ solaris libpthread is there . solaris emulation module is loaded. I know that it is no Ultralinux bug report but i hope somebody of you knows something about VIS which can helf me to enhance my Prgramms Sven Grundmann ps: The Ultra I are the fastest Prozessors in that DES contest with that client i have found ( normally only as fast as a Pentium 200 ) URL is : http://www.distributed.net