Re: [patch] Disassembly improvements

Yao Qi
2013-10-19T01:55:25Z

On 10/19/2013 02:25 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> BTW, how will your "Read memory in multiple lines in dcache_xfer_memory"
> series help disassembly if the disassembler, today, without that other
> patch that caches things in disasm.c, fetches memory from the target
> instruction by instruction? Seems to me it'll end up always fetching
> a single line at a time.

That series is to optimize dcache, since disassembly doesn't use dcache,
that series doesn't help disassembly now.
Once we use dcache in disassembly (that is what I am doing), that series
helps when users disassembly large functions.

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