GMP contribution

Morten Morten.Gulbrandsen at rwth-Aachen.de
Fri Apr 18 00:19:42 CEST 2008


Natarajan, Bragadeesh wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> I sent the mail that is shown below to the email address
> gmp-devel at swox.com <mailto:gmp-devel at swox.com> and I have not gotten
> any response. So I am sending it out to the second email address
> gmp-discuss at swox.com <mailto:gmp-discuss at swox.com> that was on the GMP
> website. Could you please respond?
>
Hi Mr  Natarajan,
responding is not a problem.  but giving the correct reply regards legal
issues I cannot do.

>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Braga
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Natarajan, Bragadeesh
> *Sent:* Monday, April 14, 2008 3:36 PM
> *To:* 'gmp-devel at swox.com'
> *Cc:* Huebel, David
> *Subject:* GMP contribution
>
>  
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> I am a software engineer at Advanced Micro Devices and I have been
> working on increasing the performance of certain functions in GMP. We
> are also working with an AMD customer that is using GMP in their
> system. We wish to contribute our optimized implementations back to
> the GMP project. In particular, I have optimized the following functions,
>
>  
>
> 1. mpn_addmul_1
>
> 2. mpn_sqr_basecase
>
>  
>
> We have tested these changes against in-house developed test codes
> with reference code from existing GMP-4.2.2. The mpn_addmul_1 has SSE2
> instructions in it and is generic to both AMD and Intel. But the
> optimizations are 64-bit specific and AMD specific.
>
>  
>
> Please let us know what legal steps that AMD needs to take for the
> contribution. Also, what technical work (verification, performance
> tests etc) do you expect from us before accepting the contribution.
>
>  
>
> Also, we saw there are some external links to other people’s work who
> have optimized GMP for AMD processors. Some questions related to this are,
>
> 1. Can these contributions be used by anybody under LGPL?
>
> 2. Will these contributions become part of GMP in the future?
>
>  
>
> We look forward to working with you to make GMP excel in performance.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Braga
>
>  
>


this mail I have not seen, normally I pay high attention to any news
from AMD  since I use your
CPU on a daily base.  I read and discuss on this list which is also
accessible from

NNTP and webmail,

On  snews.gmane.org   NNTP I cannot see it.


http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-discuss/2008-April/thread.html

the mail from 14.th April is to me not existent.

So I read this list from three sources, and I think it could be that it
was by accident
declared as *****SP4M*****    I only subscribe at gmp-discuss. 

however this mail is present in my inbox,  in my NNTP account and from
the gmane account.

I am certain someone with more competence will reply you.

You did not mention which C++ compiler you are using, 
gcc please?  which version ?

Microsoft visual studio ? 

which operating system?   BSD  Gnu/ Linux or Windows?

best regards

Morten


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