Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:48:32 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca.emmerton.org> Cc: Aaron Smith <aaron@mutex.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@csua.berkeley.edu, breadbox@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled Message-ID: <20010321114832.A31809@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca.emmerton.org on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:08:49PM -0500 References: <20010320174630.B82004@gelatinous.com> <017d01c0b1ab$df4be1b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:08:49PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Since I would imagine a large percentage of FreeBSD users run on i686 > > cores, it'd be great to get this pretty significant speed increase into > our > > tree. > > 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? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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