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mwhudson

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About mwhudson

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    Comment #45780114

    Probably not v4 unless AVX512 becomes more ubiquitous than it looks like it will. But yeah, I don't expect this to be the only variant ever.

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    Comment #45780084

    No it's not using hwcaps. That would only allow optimization of code in shared libraries, would be irritating to implement in a way that didn't require touching each package that i…

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    Comment #45780060

    I am probably going to be the one implementing this and I don't know what I am going to do yet! At the very least we need the failure mode to be better (currently you get an OOPS w…

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    Comment #45780057

    > Could this be used to address the pesky armel vs. armel+hardfloat vs. armhf issue No, because those are different ABIs (and a debian architecture is really an ABI) > the issue of…