Eric W. Biederman wrote:

gcc is a long ways from doing this in registers without a
major re-write, which is probably about as much work as your implementation in
assy.  Very clever assy code, BTW.


I just picked that code along with the nrv2b algorithm out of libucl.
But I can at least recognize a good thing when I see it.

Yeah, I figured that out after staring at it and the C code for a while, and then found it in the ucl library. After manipulating the decompression C-code for a while, I'm pretty convinced that compiling this without spilling registers is a hard problem, even with a lot of re-arraranging. The assy code appears to take into account additional information about the algorithm that is not readily apparent from the C code, at least, that is the conclusion I came to after an hour or so of analyzing it.


-Steve

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