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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Swapping functions for Mac OS X
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Swapping functions for Mac OS X |
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Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:33:52 -0400 |
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 09:50, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
> Hi Fabrice,
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> I think it should be quite useful to use the swapping functions on Mac
> OS X. However I don't see a huge performance gain with this patch.
Ugh ? How cna it be useful to call into library functions why you can
use inline assembly ? Actually, if the swap is done on data loaded/stored
from/to memory, then you can use the ppc endian swapped load/store
instructions
Ben.