Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:22:24 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: f@#$ing MMX emulator |
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On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 09:00:46PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Not totally true, as Ingo has shown doing IP checksums on MMX was not > significantly different in complexity from doing it on Sparc VIS.
I was perhaps a bit harsh, but I did say some corner cases. Besides, we all know Mingo's asm rocks, so anything he does can't possible count.
> You seem to allude later that MMX should have used another bank of > registers, Sparc VIS does not do this and uses the normal FPU. I > don't know if you were driving at things being different here between > Sparc and Intel, but in any event they aren't in this regard.
How long does it take for the sparc to save/restore all the FPU registers?
-cw
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