Re: Floating point performance

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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