Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:04:36 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stanford benchmark/usenix Message-ID: <199601230804.NAA27867@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199601220945.BAA14112@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 22, 96 01:45:25 am
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> > >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 type > (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. May be it will be simpler to have several versions of dynamic libraries optimized for different processors and to install the one needed for this box. -SB
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