Re: [htdig-dev] Improving speed of htdig on mac os x

[Gustave T. Stresen-R. <ted...@ma...>]

Very well said... Thanks for the clear thought. You probably saved all 
of us a lot of time and effort for almost nothing... I was just 
ruminating on what could be done to speed up htdig on the mac and that 
was the only thing I could think of... but you're really right: why put 
time into something that is ultimately nearing the end of its life...

Ted

On Jul 26, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Christopher Murtagh wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:59 +0100, Gustave T. Stresen-Reuter wrote:
>> One way to improve the speed of htdig on mac os x is to take advantage
>> of the AltiVec processor. I don't know anything about how to do this,
>> but in reading some documentation I ran across a document says that
>> "Existing C code written for serial execution" can take advantage of
>> the AltiVec processor.
>
>  Although that has a pretty short life span (since Apple is moving to
> Intel), and writing proper vectorized code is not simple. So, basically
> a lot work and code for probably a very small audience and short term.
> It would have to be a project that someone would do out of love rather
> than need. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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