Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 09:39:00 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Harvey Harrison
<harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's called be16_to_cpup, or on x86, swab16p()

Indeed. If now somebody with an Atom could test whether using movbe
has an advantage (my guess is that there is a slight advantage) then
one could define a special version of the __beXX_to_cpup and
__cpu_to_beXXp functions for Atom and start using these functions more
rigorously in the tree.
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