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
