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Date: Sat,  4 Aug 2007 21:11:54 +0900
From: "Noah Evans" <noah.evans@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mips kernel
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You're right. But in the end wouldn't thumb be faster? Most of the
homebrew/professional software for the ds is written in thumb with arm
for the interrupt handlers and such. IIRC the ds reads are in 16bit
increments.

I did a naive compile to thumb a while back, it "worked" insofar as
the kernel booted but the graphics were messed up.

Noah

On 8/4/07, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > Eventually I'm going to try to move as much as I can to thumb, but
> > right now the tool chain is being very good to me.
>
> i'd ignore thumb.  we can do it (cf. tc, and the extensive cross-calling support
> in inferno's 5l) but i'd still ignore it.
>
>