Re: [Altivec Newbie] optimizing current code?

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From: Dave Howell
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:42

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> > Personally, I try to keep things to one AltiVec instruction per line.
> > It helps me optimize later, but there's no reason you have to do it
> > that way.
> 
> CodeWarrior does a reasonable job at scheduling if you write in C, so I am
> curious how keeping things one per line helps you optimize.

Ian, you misunderstood. He didn't say it helps CodeWarrior to optimize,
but that it helped HIM to optimize. If your code is written one
instruction per line, it's easier from an editing standpoint to reorder
operations later, than if you have to edit complex vector expressions.

Dave

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From: Dave Howell <dave@noreturnaddress.nulldev>
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