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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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