Re: Optimisation

[Sridhar Adagada <asridhars@gmail.com>]

Thank you.  For some reason i have been reading ANDI ans ADDI.  But i
am still confused at lines 13, 14 and 15
  13         imax    $8, $6, 0
  14         srl     $10, $8, 3
  15         beq     $10, $0, .L62

Thanks for correcting me

Sri


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:59:58 +0200 (MEST), Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Sridhar Adagada wrote:
> > As you can see $6 is the length, my confusion is at the lines 12-14,
> > 19, 20 why is the length added with 65535 and the comparison with 0
> 
> It's not `added with 65535', but `ANDed with 65535'. MIPS32 has 32-bit integer
> operations only. If you want to do 16-bit math, all data has to be masked.
> 
> Anyway, for performance, it's better to do 32-bit math only.
> 
> > short cal_xxx(short *abs, short *coef, short len, short base)
> > {
> >  short i;
> >  short sum = 0;
> >
> >  for (i = 0; i < length; i++)
> >  {
> >    sum += ( (unsigned int)abs[i] * (unsigned int)coef[i] );
> 
> Why cast to unsigned int while sum is a short? Unless you really want to rely
> on sum being a short, you better make it int and do the truncation to short
> after the loop.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                                                Geert
> 
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> 
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