Could something is done by using flags? For instance, if the detected platform is the one which required 4 byte choice, then compile it with 4 byte.
-- Dilawar On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> 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. > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > _______________________________________________ > gmp-discuss mailing list > gmp-disc...@gmplib.org > http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-discuss > -- Dilawar NCBS Bangalore
