GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 27, 2012 @09:03AM from the well-armed-society dept.

hypnosec writes "A new version of GNU C Library (glibc) has been released and with this new version comes support for the upcoming 64-bit ARM architecture a.k.a. AArch64. Version 2.17 of glibc not only includes support for ARM, it also comes with better support for cross-compilation and testing; optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp for System z10 and zEnterprise z196; and optimized version of string functions, on top of some quite a few other performance improvements, states the mailing list release announcement. Glibc v 2.17 can be used with a minimum Linux kernel version 2.6.16."

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Re:optimized better than the builtins? by VortexCortex · 2012-12-27 10:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Do you even Assembly?!
Re:Ulrich Drepper by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 10:16 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm not sure the man has ever been happy. I'm pretty sure he'd grit his teeth through an orgasm, if he ever had one. I wager he would reproduce in a laboratory though.