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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: bcopy implementation
In-Reply-To: <857m57c8tr.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> from Dave Marquardt at "Apr 3, 98 07:51:12 am"
To: marquard@zilker.net (Dave Marquardt)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 16:20:08 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Dave Marquardt:
> > of not implementing this method in libc? 
> 
> Well, you said it yourself.  "On the assumption, that the system has
> pentium processor...."  Well, we can't assume that, since FreeBSD runs
> on 386s and up.

Well, if you want everything to go faster, you optimize for the hardware
you're actually gonna run on. Now, it would be quite possible too add
ifdefs so that you would add -DOPTIMIZE_FOR_PENTIUM to CFLAGS in make.conf
and then make world. And libc would be compiled with that optimization, etc.

  /Mikael


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