Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:07:28 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991222220728.A2187@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912201836.TAA27912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:36:31PM %2B0100 References: <199912201836.TAA27912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:36:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > > > Well, when I added 3DNow support to the Seti@home client, I > > > assembled the 3DNow instructions "manually", i.e. I created > > > small gas macros for that purpose. It's ugly, but it works. > > > > Being the curious kind: what speed difference did you observe? > > About 50%, that is, about 4.5 hours (instead of 9) on average > per work unit, on an Athlon-500. And I did only optimize the > FFT and didn't touch the rest. With a bit more effort, further > improvements would be certainly possible. > Is this version on the setiathome server at Berkeley? Related question: there does not seem to be a seti@home client for FreeBSD/alpha. Is there anybody working on this? -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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