Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:43:16 +0900 From: Till Plewe <till@plewe.is.tsukuba.ac.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: assembler, icc/gcc, Message-ID: <20031106044316.GB11221@plewe.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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I am writing a program where speed is very important.
Some parts will probably have to be written in assembler.
I have a dual-Xeon machine running CURRENT.
I am looking for {advice on,experiences people have had with} writing
assembler programs for pentium4/xeon processors. (I have too many
manuals right now and difficulties in deciding where to start)
In particular, I am not sure whether I should be using nasm/icc or
gas/gcc. Nasm supports SSE2 instructions (I don't know if gas does,
the intel2gas port doesn't) which I probably need in order to
manipulate 81bit-500bit integers (sets) efficiently. On the other
hand I would like to be able to use inline assembler but that seems to
be impossible with NASM and gcc. I don't exactly know what style
of inline assembler icc supports yet.
Besides /usr/ports/lang/intel2gas there is a nasm-2-gcc-inline
translator at Fermilab http://lqcd.fnal.gov/sse/inline.html which I
haven't tried yet.
In any case any suggestions as to how to proceed would be appreciated.
- Till
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