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Date:      Mon, 20 May 1996 11:55:08 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: some more on fast bcopy
Message-ID:  <9605201555.AA22820@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605191033.DAA02039@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <199605181848.EAA11220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199605191033.DAA02039@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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<<On Sun, 19 May 1996 03:33:36 -0700 (PDT), asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) said:

> Another place that it may help (and may fool lmbench and the likes :)
> is libc, do I need to the complicated FP state save/restore in there
> too?  Or can that be a simple fnsave/frstor?

Don't forget that you can't make this the default because libc doesn't
know what CPU it's running on.

-GAWollman

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