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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:50:45 -0700
From:      Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To:        Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question about "ed" driver performance on ASUS SP3G & 486DX4/100 
Message-ID:  <199708120050.RAA04916@ducky.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:48:02 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96.970811084706.8496C-100000@cynic.portal.ca> 

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>> I tried 16-bit copies; they were a little slower (about 16 and 18
>> seconds on the P5-90 and 486-100 respectively).
>
>I'd be interested to see what you get with 8-bit copies. Did you
>drop the board into 16-bit mode before doing your 16-bit reads,
>BTW? I'm not sure if it makes a difference on reads, but it certainly
>does on writes.

8 bit copies were 1.5 times as slow as 16-bit copies--about .65
megabytes/sec.

I tried both rep movsb and manually unrolled movb's.

At this point, I've concluded the board is probably at fault...



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