Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:21:14 -0800 From: Brian Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Aaron Smith" <aaron@mutex.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jon@csua.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled Message-ID: <200103211421.GAA07389@eidolon.muppetlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <006101c0b210$c400edf0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010320174630.B82004@gelatinous.com> <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010321114832.A31809@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <006101c0b210$c400edf0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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>>> I sure hope I'm not the only one with a "lab" of 4 FreeBSD >>> machines that are all 486s or 586s. >> >> You may find that the 686 assembly is as fast on a 386/486/586 as >> the old assembly is. Maybe you could test it and let the list know? > > I was under the impression that the 586/686 code uses instructions > that are not present on 386/486 machines, so I doubt that it would > help. Bite your tongue! The youngest instruction in my patches is movzx, which was introduced with the 386. b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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