On 03/27/2011 04:19 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 03/26/2011 09:10 PM, Matthew Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Armv7 / VFP / NEON support to squeeze a bit more performance out
>>> (where appropriate to the h/w).
>>
>> I suspect you'll find that NEON won't make a noticeable difference, at
>> least not until:
>
> I suspect you're right that recompiling the world with NEON is no big
> deal, but simply doing glibc/X/liboil/codecs should be a large win by
> itself.  In those cases there's pre-vectorized code sitting there
> and waiting to be emitted once the right flag's turned on.

If there is such code in there (and I'm not convinced there is much, if 
any), it is likely to be hand-crafted assembly - and if that is the 
case, it's a virtual certainty that it isn't ARM assembly.

Gordan
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