By: anonymous (no.delete@this.spam.com), April 20, 2012 11:26 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
>>If only the ALUs are able to write to the register file the problem becomes much
>>easier, that's why I guess AGUs (or AGLUS if you prefer) on BD are so limited.
>
>But I don't think that's it, since they can do load/inc/dec independently which
>all require writing to the register file.
The BD AGUs can't actually handle INC/DEC.
The current optimization manual finally shows that.
And it's trivial to test it yourself. :)
>>easier, that's why I guess AGUs (or AGLUS if you prefer) on BD are so limited.
>
>But I don't think that's it, since they can do load/inc/dec independently which
>all require writing to the register file.
The BD AGUs can't actually handle INC/DEC.
The current optimization manual finally shows that.
And it's trivial to test it yourself. :)



