| From: | James Russell |
| Date: | 12 Sep 2000 at 01:23:41 |
| Subject: | Re: [Re: Subject: Re: [RE: AMIOPEN: has anyone run SPEC benchmark using VP?]] |
"Jesse McClusky" <thought@weblink.org> wrote:
>
> Um, actually, VP code is marked as 0. 1+ is specific processor-native
code.
>
Okay, thank you. So you would simply not include the VP code and THEN it would
look for the native version. Thank you for the clarification. :)
> > I don't know how far this goes, so concievably you could use
> > entirely native toolsets. If you were only ever going to use one
> > processor, it would then make sense to do this(?).
> >
> > Is this the case, anyone? Can you go entirely native with VP code? Should
> > you?
>
> Can you? Yes.
> It's probably preferable in embedded systems to use as much native
> code as possible, except in what you'd call the "automatic device driver"
> portion -- the chunks that get sent to nearby devices that want to use it.
> The only other reason to use native code is if you have a very
> processor-intensive task, and the VP translator isn't optimizing the
> code enough (such as with certain 3D tasks, currently, on the P3).
That would be the 3D Now or whatever it's called technologies that are
Intel-proprietary? Okay, that makes sense.
James
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