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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks Min Chen for your very useful reviews!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>
<span style="color:black">LD2+UADDL equal to LD1+ADDLP<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You are right!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The cost for LD2 is 7 cycles and LD1 is 5 cycles for Neoverse-N1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With your suggested change I see a big speedup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Before:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> scale2D_64to32 62.21x 220.95 13744.77<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">After, see attached patch:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> scale2D_64to32 86.66x 158.61 13746.23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sebastian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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