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SubjectRe: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 10:25:37AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > The demonstration code was an example of how to pipeline
> > something that is, buy it's nature, capable of being
> > pipelined. It is not a fix for something that is not
> > broken.
>
> If you want pipelining, why not help the GCC folks implement better
> instruction scheduling? One guy is claiming speedups of 30% or more
> just from better experimental scheduling for an AMD K6.

Oh yes. This seems to me a far better idea than starting to write asm
code for specific (or a set of) processors.
Richard, giving that you have the skills (and seems that you have them),
it will be much better if you help writing a better C compiler (no jokes)
squeezing from egcs (here I admit I am using it ... but it works okay so
far if I use it at -O2 optimization level) the best assembly you can from
such a beast (hehe ... trying to get that 10 times speedup on C compiled
code ... I know ... maybe just a dream :)

Ciao,
Riccardo.



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