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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/25] target-sparc improvements
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On 12/17/2015 12:54 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> The primary focus of this patch set is to reduce the number of
> helpers that modify TCG globals, and thus increase the lifetime
> of those globals within each TB, and thus decrease the number
> of times that tcg must spill and fill them from backing store.
>
> This patch set is relative to the "Improve sparc register windows"
> patches, which turned all of the integer registers into TCG globals.
> Thus this patch set improves the effect of the previous patch set.
>
> As a byproduct, I also implement the bulk of the interesting v9 ASIs
> inline, thus exposing e.g. the little-endian loads and stores as
> simple tcg operations.

Ho hum.  I dunno what's wrong today, but "git send-email" is
throwing lots of errors for me today.

If in doubt, the complete tree is at

   git://github.com/rth7680/qemu.git tgt-sparc


r~