Subject: Re: about powerpc version of in{,4}_cksum
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/30/2002 11:07:56
At 11:01 AM 7/30/2002, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>| ! "lwzu 7,4(%2);"
>| ! "lwzu 8,4(%2);"
>| ! "lwzu 9,4(%2);"
>| ! "lwzu 10,4(%2);"
>
> BTW, does it pay to unroll the loop? While playing with bzero
>I noticed that an unrolled version was somewhat slower than the
>straight forward loop on my G4, probably due to cache intricacies.
>How is that for in_cksum?
Well, for the G4 case I plan on getting a AltiVec implemention
of in_cksum working shortly.
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