[Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 11 20:11:38 CET 2009

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

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