Re: optimization of string (and math) routines in (g)libc

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:23:24 -0700

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>>>>> On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:10:11 +0200, Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> said:

>>> David, in patches on azstarnet I saw you've been writing math
>>> routines in glibc. But I havn't found any string routines beyond
>>> libc-0.43, which contains strlen.S. If there's more, please let
>>> me know.

>> I have not seen any of these; could you point me to the correct
>> file?

The only improved function is sqrt(). The math library could use a
lot of work, though Sun's fdlibm seems a lot better than the BSD code
(and, it's fairly complete as far as I can tell).

--david

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