RE: CRC32C Parallel Computation Optimization on ARM

From: "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer(dot)devulapalli(at)intel(dot)com>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Xiang Gao <Xiang(dot)Gao(at)arm(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: CRC32C Parallel Computation Optimization on ARM
Date: 2025-03-12 17:49:50
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> > Intel has contributed SSE4.2 CRC32C [1] and AVX-512 CRC32C [2] based on
> similar techniques to postgres.
>
> ...this is a restatement of facts we already know. I'm guessing the intended
> takeaway is "since Intel submitted an implementation to us based on paper A,
> then we are free to separately also use a technique from paper B (which cites
> patents)".

Yes.

> The original proposal that started this thread is below, and I'd like to give that
> author credit for initiating that work

Yup, that should be fine.

Raghuveer

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