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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:40:25 +0100
From:      "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: Cached file read performance
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe10612230840u7ffb2855y8d6151d2f24ace4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200612231321.52178.davidxu@freebsd.org>
References:  <458B3651.8090601@paradise.net.nz> <20061222222757.G18486@delplex.bde.org> <20061222202933.709d2279@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <200612231321.52178.davidxu@freebsd.org>

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2006/12/23, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 03:29, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
> > I want to point out http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-memcpy
> > here. Just in case someone wants to play around a little bit.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Alexander.
>
> I have read the code, if a buffer is not aligned at 16 bytes boundary,
> it will not use FPU to copy data, but user buffer is not always 16 bytes
> aligned.

If the buffer is not aligned, speedup improvement is so small to be near at 0%.

Attilio


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