Re: [OT] On `ad hominem' - OS X users

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Anyway, I'm suspicious of the idea that the asm build is significantly
faster. Compilers have gotten a lot smarter, and CPUs a lot more
complex since the days of counting instruction cycles and optimizing
register use.

Obviously, you do not know how assembler is used in multiprecision
arithmetic... Hint: your processor has 10x number of instructions
than those generated by C compilers...

Why are you being so damned obnoxious? Seriously. It's nothing but one
insult after another with you. What exactly is your problem?

It's a fact that modern compilers *usually* generate faster code than
hand-coded assembler. If this library is an exception to that general
rule, why can't you just say so without being a condescending ass
about it?

BTW: I'm very suspicious of your report of all tests passing... Did
not you just tested 2.1.7?

Yes, because that's the version that it downloaded and patched.

(It's behaviour on OS X is well-understood
[although you still managed to highlight several new facets ;-]; the
discussion was about 3.3.4 - which requires patches I mentioned in my
initial reply of this thread...)

Sorry, but if you want any further help from me, you're going to have
to apologize and lighten up on the hostility.

sherm--

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