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Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] MIPS32 DSP instructions again]
> A wonderful document is on its way, fairly soon.
>
:)
> Meanwhile (even though you don't care), this does make sense. Many of
> the DSP instructions have the form of a multiply-accumulate. These:
> For performance you'd like to unroll the matrix-traversing loop and
> overlap multiple operations, but you can't do that unless you have
> multiple possible destination registers. So instead of one
> double-size multiply result register, you now have four.
The instructions themselves sound great, my only objection was using the
same register that HI/LO used to be. I think that using general purpose
registers for this would have been a better solution.
-eric