[myrinet] Re: division operation

"Edgar A. Leon" <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:33:15 -0700 (MST)

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Thanks everybody for your comments.
Edgar.

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lindahl <[email protected]> writes:

    Greg> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:52:18PM -0700, Edgar A. Leon
    Greg> wrote:
    >> Considering that there's no division in the LANai instruction
    >> set, I find interesting that in the file gmcp.c, part of the
    >> mcp code uses divisions. Anybody knows why is that?

    Greg> Dividing a constant by a constant can be done at compile
    Greg> time. gcc has the usual optimizations, and the lanai
    Greg> compiler is gcc with a special backend.

    Greg> greg


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Edgar A. LeÃ³n

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