Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:11:03 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca.emmerton.org> Cc: "Aaron Smith" <aaron@mutex.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jon@csua.berkeley.edu>, <breadbox@muppetlabs.com> Subject: Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled Message-ID: <006101c0b210$c400edf0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010320174630.B82004@gelatinous.com> <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010321114832.A31809@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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> > 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? I was under the impression that the 586/686 code uses instructions that are not present on 386/486 machines, so I doubt that it would help. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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