Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Use of host vector operations in host helper functions

2014-09-14 Thread Alex Bennée
Richard Henderson writes: > Most of the time, guest vector operations are rare enough that it doesn't > really matter that we implement them with a loop around integer operations. > > But for target-alpha, there's one vector comparison operation that appears in > every guest string operation, and

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Use of host vector operations in host helper functions

2014-08-28 Thread Richard Henderson
Most of the time, guest vector operations are rare enough that it doesn't really matter that we implement them with a loop around integer operations. But for target-alpha, there's one vector comparison operation that appears in every guest string operation, and is used heavily enough that it's in