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Performance issue in code

Apr 9th, 2009

I am working on a embedded board with MIPS architecture and i have a requirement to initialize the 128MB RAM by writing zero's onto the memory. I have coded the following thing

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// RAM initialization part
    li    t2, 0x80000000 //RAM starting address
    li    t3, 0x02000000 //(RAM size/0x04) ( 0x08000000(128MB)/0x04 )
    li    t4, 0x00000000 //Value we need to initialize
ram_init:
    sw    t4, 0(t2)
    addi t2, t2, 0x00000004
    addi t3, t3, -0x00000004
    bgtz t3, ram_init
    nop
// RAM initialization part
    li    t2, 0x80000000 //RAM starting address
    li    t3, 0x02000000 //(RAM size/0x04) ( 0x08000000(128MB)/0x04 )
    li    t4, 0x00000000 //Value we need to initialize
ram_init:
    sw    t4, 0(t2)
    addi t2, t2, 0x00000004
    addi t3, t3, -0x00000004
    bgtz t3, ram_init
    nop

But with this code i am getting a performance issue where the above code takes about 70 to 80 seconds to write zero's onto the memory location. Is there any better way to do the same operation so that the time taken can be reduced to less than 5 seconds.

-BalaC-

Last edited by cbalu; Apr 9th, 2009 at 10:19 am. Reason: Included code syntax