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Re: gcc extension versus external library
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Mohamed Abou Samra <my_abousamra at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:58:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcc extension versus external library
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Mohamed Abou Samra
<my_abousamra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to know the performance differences between any gcc extension and other external library I link it to my code as I linked Intel's DFP library to my code and I used the gcc extension for the DFP in another code but with the same structure and I found the Intel's code is faster than the gcc's one and I heared that gcc extension should be faster than any other linked library! So, what do u think with that? which should be faster?
>
The current DFP support in libgcc is based on the very old Intel DFP
library. We are planning to update it to the current Intel DFP library.
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H.J.