In article <3ca792d1@news.povray.org> , "Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote:

> Hey ... for my studies, I had the chance to "port" this x86-code to
> MIPS-ASM ... It was perfectly possible, meaning, it worked...
> ... I couldn't messure any speedup, as it run on a software-MIPS-simulater,
> called "SPIM" ... if it was useful, is another chapter, but at least it was
> fun (for me, at least) ...

SPIM is indeed very neat except that its programmers made a too big fuss about
byte order and got the memory view all wrong :-(

    Thorsten

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