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Re: DFA for PPro, P2, P3


>  In message <20020503202213.GB23248@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Jan Hubicka 
> writes:
>  > I modeled each decoder as unit (well, pentium has just two of them) and then
>  > used presence set to ensure that pentium u unit is fed before pentium v 
> unit.
>  > This works quite naturally for me.  The nonpairable instructions simply
>  > allocate both units.  I guess pentiumpro can use same scheme, just with
>  > three units.  Is there some better alternative?
> Well, given the physical ordering constraints modeling the decoder as
> a vliw probably makes sense.

I am not quite sure what you mean by this sentence.  Is there some other
support for VLIW I missed, or we both mean the presence_set/exclusion_set and
similar features?
> 
> 
>  > This reminds me, that I should post the patch, give me some time to dig it
>  > out, I've just returned from a trip.
> Please do.  I've got an idle P166 :-)
OK,
I sent the patch.  I am really curious about the results!

Honza
> jeff


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