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Is there definitive information on these issues? The pattern for me is that I'm excited about a new instruction set when it is announced, then disappointed whe
by lukego 7y ago
Is there definitive information on these issues?
The pattern for me is that I'm excited about a new instruction set when it is announced, then disappointed when it is shipped in silicon, then I have a hard time knowing when it is truly resolved and worth taking a second look at.
My recollection with AVX2 is that glibc shipped those routines since before silicon was generally available, and then kept them enabled even when the clock-throttling issues became apparent. (The water was muddied a bit in one glibc release that shipped a bug in selecting which code to use for the running uarch, but that's a separate issue.)
- mbell 7y agoNot specifically glibc but some data on the frequency scaling impact: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequency-scaling/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...