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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:03:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bcopy via npx not in 686 version?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971115130123.220R-100000@cello.synapse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199711151800.NAA04220@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> There isn't an advantage using the FPU for bcopys on P6 processors.  In
> fact, movs[*] instructions are optimized on a P6.

Ahh, ok.  It's good to know that Intel thought about optimise something in
the P6 while they were busy designing obnoxious bugs in to the P5 line :-) 

Evan




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