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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Dog Sloooow SMP
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>> FreeBSD should use its own bitmap of capabilities and not test the Intel
>> flags except once to translate them.  32 general flags might even be
>> enough.
>> 
>
>How about 64 for the odd case that K7 actually materialises as promised
>and people start putting them in dual motherboards?

That would be almost twice as slow for CC=gcc.   CC=egcs handles 64-bit
bit tests better, especially for the low 32 bits.

Bruce

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