[Liboil] Is liboil still alive?

[Jeff Squyres]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Thiago Galesi wrote:

>> I do see *some* assembly in liboil/*/*copy*.c.  Does anyone know if  
>> any of
>> these have non-temporal copies?  There's no real comments to  
>> explain, and I
>> have no idea what the assembly for non-temporal copies looks like...
>
> Nowadays assembly is not needed as much since the invention of
> intrinsics (that's the _mm_store_si128 kind of thing), it's like a C
> function, but 'lighter'
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_function
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Oooohh... yummy!  Thanks for all the tips -- I'm off to read read  
read...

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems