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2020 Jul 21
7
New x86-64 micro-architecture levels
* Premachandra Mallappa: > [AMD Public Use] > > Hi Floarian, > >> I'm including a proposal for the levels below. I use single letters for them, but I expect that the concrete implementation of this proposal will use >> names like “x86-100”, “x86-101”, like in the glibc patch referenced above. (But we can discuss other approaches.) >...
2020 Jul 10
12
New x86-64 micro-architecture levels
Most Linux distributions still compile against the original x86-64 baseline that was based on the AMD K8 (minus the 3DNow! parts, for Intel EM64T compatibility). There has been an attempt to use the existing AT_PLATFORM-based loading mechanism in the glibc dynamic linker to enable a selection of optimized libraries. But the general selection mechanism in glibc is problematic: hwcaps