[pypy-dev] Re: OT: abs(x) with 4 assembly insns

Laura Creighton lac at strakt.com
Mon Sep 29 16:27:30 CEST 2003


In a message of Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:19:58 EDT, Bob Ippolito writes:
>
>On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 08:23 America/New_York, Michael Hudson 
>wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:
>>
>>>> I've been reading the PPC architecture manual, though, so I can tell
>>>> you that Bob's 3 instructions are all single cycle instructions on a
>>>> G3...
>>>
>>> You should also check out IBM's PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide, if
>>> you  haven't already:
>>> http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/
>>> 852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6
>>>
>>> Hard copies of this document can be obtained by calling IBM at (800)
>>> 879-2755 and requesting document number SA14-2094, I hear that they
>>> used to (maybe still do) charge $1.00 for the book :)
>>
>> Our Apologies
>>
>> You have attempted to enter a controlled access area that you are not
>> currently entitled to view. IBM Microelectronics uses a entitlement
>> process to protect potentially sensitive data.
>>
>> ... oh well.  I'll dig around for it, though.  And I guess s&h might
>> be more that $1 to the UK...
>
>Maybe it's restricted to US citizens only?  That would be odd..  I 
>tried it in another browser just to make sure it wasn't a baked cookie 
>from when I downloaded IBM's PowerPC compilers, and it worked just fine.

I can read it just fine as well.  How very odd.

Laura


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