I'm still playing to find speed on emulators and i find memset slow, anybody tried to write a fast memset, i only found this :
_memclrwh: ! terulet torlo: memclrwh(byte* buf, long width, long height, long step)
! step = map width - brush width
xor r2,r2
lswh_1:
mov r5,r1
lswh_2:
mov.b r2,@r4
add #1,r4
dt r1
bf lswh_2
add r7,r4
dt r6
bf lswh_1
rts
nop
i'd like to replace such thing :
memset(SpriteOnScreenMap, 255, 0x10000);
mrkotfw
Jul 29, 2012
I'm not sire if that's as fast as you think it is. It writes in units of 1 byte and doesn't even look to eliminate some trivial pipeline stalls. Newlib's implementation might be faster.
antime
Jul 29, 2012
If possible, use DMA. If you have to use CPU transfers, try the existing library code first. Smart people have spent a lot of time optimizing it. Other than that, write in larger chunks, to reduce the amount of time spent waiting on the (S)DRAM. Use all the normal optimizing tricks, like unrolling your loops and taking advantage of the instruction set where possible. Also test on real hardware if you can, emulators rarely take things like memory wait states or pipeline stalls into account.
A naive attempt at a 2-way unrolled version (still writing only a single byte at a time):
