I've ported GMP to Mac Pro. GMPbench > 7700

[Jason Worth Martin]

Hi,

I've ported GMP to the Mac Pro (and it passes "make check").  I
thought you might be interested since  I saw some archived posts on
the poor Core 2 results.  I re-wrote add_n.asm and sub_n.asm and got a
nice speed up by unrolling the loop and getting rid of the "inc"
instruction.  I've attached a tarball with the relevant files and
details.

I believe that this code could be ported to Core 2 Linux machines, but
the GNU assembler doesn't want to let me use the "sahf" and "lahf"
instructions to save the flags between loop iterations.  The Apple
assembler doesn't have a problem with it.  I'll see about replacing
those instructions with a combitation of "bt" and "test" for a Linux
version.

--jason

Jason W. Martin
Asst. Prof. of Mathematics
James Madison University

-- 
"Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.
There is good rock here." -- Gimli, son of Gloin
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