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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970912092726.15696D-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709120431.VAA28321@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * > My too -- however, i suppose that Pentium-oriented copy/zero block
>  * > procedures don't work.
>  * 
>  * Oh they do but much slower then the regular ones.
>  * 
>  * Always use "flags 0x7" for npx0 in your config. file for both Cyrix and
>  * AMD's processors.
> 
> Speaking of which, can anyone with an *MX processor check the gus mmx
> extension PR (filed under "gnu", I think) and try and see if copying
> through the mmx registers instead of FP would be faster for some of
> the CPU's?
> 
> Satoshi
> 

Didn't find the PR, but the flags do help a Cyrix 6x86MX get quite a bit 
more MB/sec with dd. 




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