Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:15:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew@lake.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium-III and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905071111510.1635-100000@hoser> In-Reply-To: <199905070056.RAA39946@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > trying to fine-tune some of the weirder instructions, though... it's > usually a waste of time and tends to obscure the larger issues that, > if fixed, would have yielded an even greater gain. A good example of do some profiling after doing clever things with the cache in some of the bulk operations (memcpy/memset/tcp checksumming/software raid/etc), thats all I'm suggesting :) > In regards to FP: The best place for extreme FP optimization is in > a high level FP library, not in native compiler-produced code. The yes. -- zach - - - - - - 007 373 5963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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