[cairo] MMX compilation under win32... patches ready to land
Soeren Sandmann
sandmann at daimi.au.dk
Mon Mar 10 13:21:36 PDT 2008
Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir at pobox.com> writes:
> Great! Soeren, let me know when you've had a chance to review the
> code bits, and I'd be happy to merge/upstream these.
The code looks fine to me.
> One thing I saw that scared me --
> http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php? id=188#body . I know
> we're just using vanilla MMX, so maybe this doesn't apply, but it
> would probably be hepful to double-check the output from the
> intrinsics to make sure there isn't anything dumb coming out of the
> compilers..
This matches my experience to some extent. There is some pretty dumb
stuff coming out of GCC 4. Crazy things like this:
movq %mm1, -32(%ebp)
movq -32(%ebp), %mm1
but even worse, the register allocator seems to generate way too many
memory spills.
GCC 3.4, which was current when I wrote the MMX paths, generated
decent code; a human could maybe improve on it, but not by much. The
code generated by GCC 4 is terrible.
However, even so, the MMX paths are still a win.
Soren
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