Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-1 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0 is released. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-1 new features POWER9 tuned libraries. The GNU C Library provides: POWER9 implies fixed.
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A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0 is released. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-1 new features POWER9 tuned libraries. The GNU C Library provides: POWER9 implies fixed.
Until now, golang did not have any support for the Power Altivec/VMX (SIMD) instruction set. This limited the possibilities of writing runtime performance optimizations that leverage those instructions. The Altivec/VMX instructions
A new major version of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is released. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-0 new features Support for Ubuntu 16.04. GCC provides fixes for complex IEEE 128-bit
In the ‘p’ struct type defined in the Golang runtime code, there is some padding at the end to avoid false sharing between different ‘p’-type structs. That padding should be
For consistency across platforms, Golang for Power now fetches the current time in nanoseconds, via the clock_gettime() syscall. Committed as 0df5ab7. This patch fixes issue #11222 for ppc64x. There is still
Golang 1.7 was released today. This release includes some significant changes, including: Port for Linux on IBM z Systems (s390) Compiler improvements, most notably, the SSA backend for x86_64 Context
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1 is available, featuring several fixes for bugs and security issues in glibc and OpenSSL. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1-5 new features
A new release of PAFLib is available. PAFLib 0.3.0 fixes several bugs and adds support to the Program Priority Register (PPR). A complete list of changes, source code and binaries
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0 is available, featuring several fixes for bugs and security issues in gcc, glibc and OpenSSL. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-7 new
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-3 new features GCC provides: Fix for PowerPC ISA 2.07 is inefficient at doint (float)(int)x.
Commit 1b045ee added a vectorized implementation of the main loop in strlen, improving the performance for long strings by approximately 200% on POWER8-based systems. Unfortunately, I had to use a few POWER8-only
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-6 new features Binutils provides: Fix for crash on fuzzed samples. Fix powerpc gas abort