Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 02:05:59 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: Rob Mallory <rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stanford benchmark/usenix Message-ID: <199601221005.CAA00415@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 01:45:25 PST." <199601220945.BAA14112@Root.COM>
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>>> David Greenman said:
> >Do we have pentium optimized bcopy and bzero ?
> >
> >Because some of the benchmarks could clearly benefit from them.
>
> After reading the Usenix paper on OS performance on Pentium machines, I'm
> inclined to add optimized code to our libc. Basically, get the processor typ
e
> (probably via sysctl) and use this to control which versions are called -
> similar to what I recently did with bzero in the kernel.
> ...This is fairly low priority, however, so won't likely happen for a few
> months.
Gosh, do I see an open invitation or what ? 8)
Happy Hacking,
Amancio
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