[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 1044] SVP64 implementation of pow(x,y,z)

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Tue Dec 12 05:29:42 GMT 2023


https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044

--- Comment #82 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #81)
> (In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #80)
> 
> > ok, icr all the locations, but I think the motivating examples are the spots
> > where Knuth's Algorithm D needs inputs with the most-significant word being
> > non-zero, so we have to find 
> 
> "have to"... remember what i said about not doing performance
> optimisations and keeping the assembler brutally short?

it isn't a performance optimization, it is required for correctness of Knuth's
Algorithm D.

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