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. -- Matt Thomas email: matt%3am-software.com@localhost 3am Software Foundry www: http://3am-software.com/bio/matt/ Cupertino, CA disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message.