18 Aug
2014
18 Aug
'14
8:36 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 06:11:33PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
A long time ago ... in a land far away :)
I did some assembler programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM 2/3) and worked
out a series of additions and subtractions that would perform very fast
multiplication of awkward numbers by known amounts.
Is there any point in doing this for C programs, or are modern compilers
sophisticated enough to do such things themselves?
If anyone is interested *7 is:
RSB R1, R0, R0, LSL #3
:-) Memories... I love ARM assembly...
Modern compilers will do such things. If they exploit other
features of the ARM (such as all instructions being conditional)
I don't know, but it's very well possible.
Ciao,
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