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From: mika ruohotie <bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: Pentium MMX Extensions, Changes to (g)as and gdb
In-Reply-To: <3314B85D.167EB0E7@ping.at> from "Helmut F. Wirth" at "Feb 26, 97 11:25:33 pm"
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:23:10 +0200 (EET)
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> Hello,
> I made some changes to gas and gdb to support the new MMX extensions
> for the Pentium P55C.

gee, cool. i didnt think we'd something about that this fast...

what i'm interested in is, does the mmx cpu run normal freebsd any
faster? the 'make world' is probably the only thing one could use
for measuring it in the "reality" level... i would assume just coz of
larger L1 cache it is already faster.

any test results welcome.


mickey