Tim Kelly wrote:
> 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.

It does.  And it has less cache side effects.  If it wasn't faster, I
would not have added support for using it to do that.


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