Subject: Re: Minor performance tweak to bcopy_page.S
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/08/2001 15:00:39
rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk (Richard Earnshaw) writes:
> OK, I'll defopt this one, but I think we should use a generic name that 
> can be used in other MD files.  Any suggestions?  My ideas would be
> 
> UNWIND_LOOPS
> NO_ICACHE
> SLOW_BRANCHES
> 
> with probably a mild preference for the first of those.

I think if you're going to do this, those should be preceeded by
something that obviously indicates that they're arch-dependent.

(btw: unwind?  i'm more used to the term 'unroll'... I think unwind
for stack frames, unroll for loops...  8-)


chris