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Peter Anvin" References: <20240915124944.GAZubX6LAcjQjN-yEb@fat_crate.local> <90d5a756-e534-490b-b451-7c855183ebc3@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Hanabishi In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/19/24 00:02, John wrote: > Yes, that is my git repo. Oops, I didn't realize that. Even better then! Could you please explain where the performance gains should come from, considering that the kernel force disables all SIMD extensions? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4a39ac5b7d62679c07a3e3d12b0f6982377d8a7d/arch/x86/Makefile#L67-L80 I.e. if we won't have them anyway, what gives?