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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Efficient Sequential Access to Arrays
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:18:03 +0200
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Keean Schupke wrote:

> So with the relative addressing code, stepping through the subset is
> dereference link, add constant[+/- row_size * element_size] and
> constant[+/- element_size] to access the neighbours, then dereference
> next link etc. The size of the array are generic parameters, so I
> presume the constants get pre-calculated at elaboration time.

If the generic is instantiated at compile-time this is likely to be
true, but I doubt it is the case for run-time instantiations.

Greetings,

Jacob
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