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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>
Cc: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@ultra.si>,
	Ulrich Eckhardt <Eckhardt@satorlaser.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Floating point performance
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:31:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050929133124.GA7135@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433BD1AA.9060404@mips.com>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:36:10PM +0100, Nigel Stephens wrote:
> 
> 
> Matej Kupljen wrote:
> 
> >I thought that SF *should* be relatively fast, because I have
> >experience with it on ARM, where Nicolas Pitre wrote amazing 
> >SF support for the glibc.
> >How can we speed-up SF on MIPS? 
> >Does anybody have some suggestions?
> > 
> >
> 
> Maybe someone should volunteer to port Nicolas's "amazing SF support" 
> from ARM to MIPS. Hint hint.

Unless you've got a spare ASE lying around with conditional execution
and a barrel shifter, I don't think this is in the cards.

Which isn't to say that someone couldn't write a good MIPS-specific
implementation, if they were a sufficiently good FP guru.  But
my feeling is that ARM is more prone than MIPS to clever tricks that
are hard for a compiler to generate.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29  7:08 Floating point performance Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-09-29  7:08 ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-09-29 11:16 ` Matej Kupljen
2005-09-29 11:36   ` Nigel Stephens
2005-09-29 11:44     ` Matej Kupljen
2005-09-29 11:49     ` Matej Kupljen
2005-09-29 13:31     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-09-29 15:39   ` David Daney
2005-09-30 11:48   ` Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
2005-09-29 11:31 ` Greg Weeks
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27  8:17 Matej Kupljen
2005-09-27  8:42 ` Jerry

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