Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

> > The MMX memcpy for CyrixIII and Athlon boxes is something like twice the
> > speed of rep movs. On most pentium II/III boxes the fast paths for rep movs
> > and for MMX are the same speed
> 
> As long as you are copying in real memory. So the PCI bus or the host bridge
> implementation may be the actual limit.

The CyrixIII sits on the same host bridges as the intel processors