Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] target-mips: Use TCG registers for the FPU.

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

Ping.  You gave it your Reviewed-by.

r~

On 09/18/2012 11:04 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> With normal FP, this doesn't have much affect on the generated code,
> because most of the FP operations are not CONST/PURE, and so we spill
> registers in about the same frequency as the explicit load/stores.
> 
> But with Loongson multimedia instructions, which are all integral and
> whose helpers are in fact CONST+PURE, this greatly improves the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> ---
> 
> As requested, only generating 64-bit fp registers now.  The generated
> code looks quite good on i386.  It could be a tad better for x86_64,
> but it's still better than it was.
> 
> 
> r~
> 
> 
>  target-mips/translate.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)