Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 16:28:03 EDT

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    Hi!

    > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
    > > >
    > > > [Snipped...]
    > > >
    > > > Good. You understand. Keep up the good work.
    > >
    > >
    > > I realy would like to see this code in use ;-)
    >
    > After you test it **THOUROUGHLY**, send a patch to Linus. I
    > recommend testing it in a user-mode program with all kinds of
    > sizes/shapes/lengths/offsets, etc., and making certain that you
    > don't destroy any registers that are "precious" for the
    > usual versions of gcc.
    >
    > If your patch doesn't hurt anything, even if it only adds marginal
    > performance, I'm pretty sure that Linus will accept it.

    I think patch like this is not safe for 2.4.X-pre.

    However, in 2.5.0 we should apply it, and force it on *all* cpus just
    to test it well. Then in 2.5.10 we should turn it off for
    pentium/MMX+.

                                                                    Pavel 

    -- 
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