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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 1996 02:05:59 -0800
From:      "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        Rob Mallory <rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stanford benchmark/usenix 
Message-ID:  <199601221005.CAA00415@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 01:45:25 PST." <199601220945.BAA14112@Root.COM> 

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>>> 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.
 >    ...This is fairly low priority, however, so won't likely happen for a few
 > months.

Gosh, do I see an open invitation or what ? 8)


	Happy Hacking,
	Amancio





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