Subject: Re: new mips cache performance
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <cgd@broadcom.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 11/18/2001 19:24:51
thorpej@wasabisystems.com ("Jason R Thorpe") writes:
> 	(2) Do the pseudo-vector thing.  Since the individual cache
> 	    primitives are too large to stuff into here, we would
> 	    have to copy cache-op-call-sites into the pvecs.  This would
> 	    mean stack allocation, saving some regs, etc. in the pvecs.

Assuming i'm thinking about the same thing you are, "too large why?"
I mean, hey, why not just make the space used to hold them larger?

(of course, that doesn't work well w/ using C-coded cache rtns,
either... but who really cares about _that_?)


chris