Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 21:33:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: tege@matematik.su.se Subject: Re: Pentium bcopy Message-ID: <199512242033.VAA01340@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512241006.VAA25049@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 24, 95 09:06:13 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >The approach has a significant penalty on a 386 (3x slower). > Not accurate enough. Use weights of 1000000 and 1 instead of 1000 > and 1/1000, or double precision. Once you've agreed to a single test strategy, i could also test it on a 386sx/16 (no cache at all) to see the penalty. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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