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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 1996 07:55:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Mike Pritchard" <mpp@mpp.minn.net>
To:        lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stanford benchmark/usenix
Message-ID:  <199601221355.HAA20992@mpp.minn.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601221224.NAA10132@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 22, 96 01:20:51 pm

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> > 
> > >>>> David Greenman said:
> > > > >Do we have pentium optimized bcopy and bzero ?
> > > > >
> > > > >Because some of the benchmarks could clearly benefit from them.
> > > > 
> > > >    After reading the Usenix paper on OS performance on Pentium machines, I'm
> > > > inclined to add optimized code to our libc. Basically, get the processor typ
> > >     e
> > > > (probably via sysctl) and use this to control which versions are called -
> > > > similar to what I recently did with bzero in the kernel.

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> Wouldn't it make more sense to have separate libraries for each
> processor type, and to install the appropriate versions?

What if you want to share your /usr with a bunch of diskless
machines of mixed cpu types?
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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