From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 14 06:29:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA10398 for current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA10393 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609141329.GAA10393@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from hawaii.dcs.gla.ac.uk by vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk with LOCAL SMTP (PP); Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:29:01 +0100 To: Bruce Evans cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pentium-optimized bzero and bcopy In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:49:21 +1000." <199609140649.QAA06910@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:28:58 +0100 From: Simon Marlow Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just out of interest, what difference does the pentium optimised bcopy make on AMD K5 / Cyrix 6x86 CPUs where the FPU is somewhat slower than the equivalent Intel part? Is it still a win? Hmmm, are these things actually probed as Pentiums anyway? Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk Research Assistant http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key