On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:40:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-09-28 10:38:24 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On September 28, 2013 10:26:33 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2013-09-28 09:03:53 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote: > > > > > > the whole point of creating x32 was to benefit from the speed advantages > > > > of amd64 without having a pointer size of 64 bits. Those speed > > > > advantages > > > > include using more registers, but also using hardware 64 bit long long. > > > > The speed difference between 32 and 64 bits [ ... ] so it doesn't make > > > > sense to me to penalize x32 > > > > > > I agree. PARI is not the only software that uses GMP. > > > > OK, so I may not have been completely clear, but what I was asking is which > > makes most sense for Debian's GMP package: 8 bytes or 4 bytes. I think > > what > > Marc and Vincent are saying is that 8 bytes is the better choice. Did I > > read > > that correctly? > > Yes, I think that 8 bytes is the better choice if this leads to > faster code and doesn't break other software than PARI.
It does break GAP at least. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
