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2006/7/2, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>:
>
> It depends.  If nwcc has no knowledge of floating point
> registers, then the optimized npx bzero and copyin/copyout
> operations aren't available.  Nothing like a slow kernel.

Thanks for the trust...

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-memcpy

Attilio


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