[MLton] Shortening dependency chains in the x86 codegen
Vesa Karvonen
vesa.karvonen at cs.helsinki.fi
Sun Jan 7 12:39:42 PST 2007
Quoting Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>:
> > Take a look at the following code for 32-bit endianness swapping
> > generated by MLton on x86:
>
> I'm sure that nowaydays, you could just use bswapl. It's available in
> i486 and up, and AFAIK, call compatibles in use today implement it.
Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting the optimization for the sake
of optimizing endianness swapping.
-Vesa Karvonen
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