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Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas: Cleanup address insn conditionals

Eric Christopher wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:11, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > > On Jun 20, 2003, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Alexandre, when you changed the NewABI addressing, was there a reason
> > > > for it besides the N32 ABI Handbook?
> > > 
> > > Nope.
> > 
> > Then I'd like to remove the n32 special handling.
> > 
> 
> Seems reasonable. Did you check the performance before/after? (shouldn't
> make any difference, but...)

I didn't, but assembly speed will slightly increase due to fewer
conditionals to check, and execution speed of the generated code
will remain the same (1 cycle for all MIPS CPUs I know of).


Thiemo
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