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Re: [PATCH] Testsuite tweaks (SPARC)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:25:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> VIS is not well designed enough, unfortunately. It's the most
> primitive of all the multimedia instruction sets. For example,
> implementing an IEEE compliant IDCT in VIS is like pulling one's
> toenails out whereas on altivec and MMX it's mostly sane.
Granted. However, I would encourage you to use the appropriate
vector operations when applicable, rather that just makeing all
the buildins use UNSPECs.
r~