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Re: Followup: MCHK exception in -current with MMU off



At 2:49 PM -0400 4/11/05, Tim Kelly wrote:
>Not that GENERIC isn't stable with
>Altivec, but on a memory access instead of a floating point calculation, I
>didn't think that this optimization would be that important.  I wasn't
>aware that Altivec will access memory faster than the GPRs.

That wasn't intended to be flippant, but a literal statement.  If Altivec
does access memory faster than GPRs, I'd like to know this.

tim





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