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Date:      Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:22:31 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x86 boot code build
Message-ID:  <86a9w1kq94.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20121005112313.GN35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> (Konstantin Belousov's message of "Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:23:13 %2B0300")
References:  <506C385C.3020400@FreeBSD.org> <506DEB4C.5020508@andric.com> <86haq9hq2c.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20121005033244.GL35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <86y5jll7kc.fsf@ds4.des.no> <CAGH67wQqs9DJoy0LSgKi1_wMFyrHUE69Dgc2dht7q8VXDVAeQQ@mail.gmail.com> <86txu9l4z9.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20121005112313.GN35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:
> So what ISA additions do you expect to get advantage of by switching
> to pentium-mmx from 486 ? As I already said, I am not aware of any.

The TSC, for one.  MMX, and the ability to use MMX registers to copy
data.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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