Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:20:21 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Jake Burkholder <jburkholder0829@home.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@FreeBSD.ORG, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: Interesting backtrace... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103200714150.39103-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010319155945.A3FA2BA69@k7.rchrd1.on.wave.home.com>
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jake Burkholder wrote: [bde wrote] > > Wrong yourself. The fpu is too slow to use for copying for everything > > except original Pentiums. The bandwidth test is just done to avoid hard- > > configuring this knowledge. > > If this is the case, is there much point in keeping the fpu register > bcopy and bzero at all? Original Pentiums still exist, and copying through the FPU might be faster on future i386's. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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