From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:10:44 +0000 Subject: updated libm available Message-Id: <16802.36372.32399.861551@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Thought this might be of interest to some folks on these lists: we recently developed a glibc patch which updates the libm with code based on the latest Intel libm release (which is v2.1). The code currently in glibc is based on v1.4 and the Intel libm code has been improved a lot since then (some functions run 5 times (!) faster than before, many functions have been added, precision has improved, etc.). For details, see this mail: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2004-11/msg00045.html There is a gnumeric spreadsheet attached to this mail which contains a (rough) summary of the speed improvements. I hope that the libm update will make it into the official glibc sources soon, but thought it would be good to raise awareness for the existence of this much improved libm. --david