Huawei Contributes Some Glibc AArch64 Performance Optimizations

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Does anyone know how the optimisations Work?

It seems they replaced the c code by optimized assembly, and improving the existing assembly that was there. I think loop-unrolling is one of the things they did, but am not sure:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=a...

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