From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 21 3:51:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4D6537B737 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 03:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 21 Mar 2001 11:48:37 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:48:32 +0000 From: David Malone To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Aaron Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@csua.berkeley.edu, breadbox@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled Message-ID: <20010321114832.A31809@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20010320174630.B82004@gelatinous.com> <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca.emmerton.org on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:08:49PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:08:49PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > 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. You may find that the 686 assembly is as fast on a 386/486/586 as the old assembly is. Maybe you could test it and let the list know? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message