On 19/07/16 16:32, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> On AArch64 the UXTB and UXTH instructions are aliases of UBFM,
> which does a shift as part of its operation. An AND immediate is a
> simpler operation, and might be faster on some implementations, so it is
> better to emit this this instead of UBFM.
>
>
On AArch64 the UXTB and UXTH instructions are aliases of UBFM,
which does a shift as part of its operation. An AND immediate is a
simpler operation, and might be faster on some implementations, so it is
better to emit this this instead of UBFM.
Benchmarking showed no difference on implementations
