From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 20 08:56:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA26926 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 08:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26921 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 08:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA22820; Mon, 20 May 1996 11:55:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 11:55:08 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605201555.AA22820@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some more on fast bcopy In-Reply-To: <199605191033.DAA02039@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> References: <199605181848.EAA11220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199605191033.DAA02039@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Another place that it may help (and may fool lmbench and the likes :) > is libc, do I need to the complicated FP state save/restore in there > too? Or can that be a simple fnsave/frstor? Don't forget that you can't make this the default because libc doesn't know what CPU it's running on. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant