On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Bill Schmidt
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> POWER9 adds endian-neutral load and store vector instructions that
> support unaligned accesses. This allows more efficient code generation
> than POWER8. With these new instructions, we no longer generate the
> load-swap and swap-sto
Hi,
POWER9 adds endian-neutral load and store vector instructions that
support unaligned accesses. This allows more efficient code generation
than POWER8. With these new instructions, we no longer generate the
load-swap and swap-store sequences, and we no longer need to perform
swap optimization