On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On the 8xx, load latency is 2 cycles and taking branches also takes
> 2 cycles. So let's unroll the loop.

This is not true for most other 32-bit PowerPC; this patch makes
performance worse on e.g. 6xx/7xx/7xxx.  Let's not!


Segher
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