Quoting Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>:

> Is that kind of trouble worth having an xyz pointer wired into one of
> the GPRs?  It's not at all clear that it increases performance at all,
> much less by an interesting amount.

I don't know if it's worth having. I guess it depends on how many  
binary blobs we expect to encounter (and I assume this is a very low  
number). On the other hand, I'm sure it was not just changed for the  
heck of it.

Andrew, what was the reason for this change? Performance? Code  
simplicity? Is this just a common thing to do? I'm simply curious.

Steve