Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
by loeg on Sunday December 09, 2018 @04:40AM
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Yes, good points. To nitpick (sorry):
> AVX2 is used widely in perf sensitive libc routines like memcpy
Depends on the libc. I believe FreeBSD's libc avoids AVX to avoid the additional context switching cost for libc-using programs that don't already use AVX.
> AVX2 is used widely in perf sensitive libc routines like memcpy
Depends on the libc. I believe FreeBSD's libc avoids AVX to avoid the additional context switching cost for libc-using programs that don't already use AVX.