# x86 mpn_copyi -- copy limb vector, incrementing. # Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is part of the GNU MP Library. # # The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your # option) any later version. # # The GNU MP Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public # License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License # along with the GNU MP Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to # the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, # MA 02111-1307, USA. include(`../config.m4') # void mpn_copyi (mp_ptr dst, mp_srcptr src, mp_size_t size); # # Copy src,size to dst,size, working from low to high addresses. # # The code here is very generic and can be expected to be reasonable on all # the x86 family. # # P5 - 1.0 cycles/limb. # # P6 - 0.75 cycles/limb. An MMX based copy was tried, but was found to be # slower than a rep movs in all cases. The fastest MMX found was 0.8 # cycles/limb (when fully aligned). A rep movs seems to have a startup # time of about 15 cycles, but doing something special for small sizes # could lead to a branch misprediction that would destroy any saving. # For now a plain rep movs seems ok for P6. defframe(PARAM_SIZE,12) defframe(PARAM_SRC, 8) defframe(PARAM_DST, 4) deflit(`FRAME',0) .text ALIGN(32) # eax saved esi # ebx # ecx counter # edx saved edi # esi src # edi dst # ebp PROLOGUE(mpn_copyi) movl PARAM_SIZE, %ecx movl %esi, %eax movl PARAM_SRC, %esi movl %edi, %edx movl PARAM_DST, %edi cld # better safe than sorry, see mpn/x86/README.family rep movsl movl %eax, %esi movl %edx, %edi ret EPILOGUE()