[Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> 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