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libfreevec is a library with many common glibc routines, rewritten and optimized to use the AltiVec vector engine found in the G4/G4+ PowerPC CPUs by Freescale. These processors are most commonly used in the older Apple Mac computers that use PowerPC CPUs (not the new MacIntels), and the Genesi Pegasos II Open Desktop Workstation (ODW). In addition to the glibc routines, it also includes custom routines which were designed to speed up various other performance-critical tasks. For example, it includes some special AltiVec optimized versions of various string and memory functions from libstring which is part of the MySQL package.