[fpc-devel] Bitset assembler

[Jy V]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Thaddy de Koning <thaddy at thaddy.co.uk>
wrote:

> With the proper optimizations it will probably hard to improve on.
> Compile the code with -O4 and -s. That generates the assembler output in a
> *.s file.
> The compiler is rather good at bitmaniputations.
>


I am not sure the FreePascal compiler is able to convert the code of the
procedure BitsetSet(var Bits; Index: UInt32);
  PUInt64Array(@Bits)^[Index shr 6] := PUInt64Array(@Bits)^[Index shr 6] or
(Int64(1) shl (Index and 63));

into a single instruction:

 bts [eax], edx
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