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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Swapping functions for Mac OS X
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Swapping functions for Mac OS X |
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Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:48:16 +0200 |
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Benjamin,
I think that the NXSwap functions are defined as inlined asm in the header.
Pierre
Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden>:
>
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 09:50, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
> > Hi Fabrice,
> >
> > 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.
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