Subject: Re: about powerpc version of in{,4}_cksum
To: None <port-powerpc@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/31/2002 20:44:12
At 11:07 AM 7/30/2002, Matt Thomas wrote:
>Well, for the G4 case I plan on getting a AltiVec implemention
>of in_cksum working shortly.
Well, I've written a such a beast and it tends to be 3 times
as fast as either the netinet or the powerpc version. The cross
over point where AltiVec is faster seems to be about 32 bytes.
I have a few more things to clean up but it's looking very
promising. I hope to check it in in a few days.
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