From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 18:14:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865FA37B71A for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f2L2AUg89630; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:10:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Aaron Smith" , Cc: , References: <20010320174630.B82004@gelatinous.com> Subject: Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:08:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Since I would imagine a large percentage of FreeBSD users run on i686 > cores, it'd be great to get this pretty significant speed increase into our > tree. I sure hope I'm not the only one with a "lab" of 4 FreeBSD machines that are all 486s or 586s. It would be great to implement these patches for gzip in the base tree, but they need to be conditianal based on CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message