[PATCH v5 0/4] add pointer compression API

[Paul Szczepanek]

On 02/03/2024 10:33, Morten Brørup wrote:
> I think that a misconception that arch specific optimizations (such as SIMD code) required stuff to go into EAL has been prevailing, and this misconception is a main reason why EAL has become so bloated.
> Moving features like pointer compression out of EAL, thereby showing alternative design patterns for code containing arch specific optimizations, will help eliminate that misconception.

I have a patch ready that moves the ptr compress into its own library 
but I must first land this patch:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240306221709.166722-2-paul.szczepanek@arm.com/
which is required to have header only libraries - otherwise errors stop 
the build.