> At least IA32 and AMD64 have specific addressing modes where > it's possibile to use a multiplying factor of 1, 2, 4 or 8 for the > index register. > > I hope that compilers were smart enough to already used them.
For x86, certainly (at least GCC does). For Thumb, certainly not: the compiler cannot assume that the code is in ThumbEE mode. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
