[Gluster-devel] NetBSD autobuild and cmockery2
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org
Thu Jul 24 04:05:16 UTC 2014
Harshavardhana <harsha at harshavardhana.net> wrote:
> > The change just disable cluster/ec when MMX is not there. If you have
> > MMX you have cluster/ec.
> Unsure - there is assembly code which depends on it but really not sure why!
I understand this is an optimized computation:
* Multiplications in a GF(2^8) with modulus 0x11D using XOR's
Optimization are desirable, but relying on a CPU-specific assembly seems
wrong to me, as it kills portability (what about if you want to run on
ARM?)
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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