From: Mala A. <ma...@us...> - 2002-06-28 11:56:03
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Niels wrote.. >Indeed, I ordered a P4 for these tests while still at IBM but AMD boxes are >not available to Mala, I believe. Before I got sacked, I even bought a P4 >to test this and other things at home but I lost interest in the matter so >never actually got around to testing. >When I did test back in February I created a few test programs and found >that the code generated by GCC Version 3.x and the library that came with >RedHat 6.2 gave almost as good results as the patches Mala then had >available. Maybe it is time to see if the compiler has improved enough to >scrap the copy code in the kernel in favor of code as generated by the >compiler. I need to check this out. I don't remember getting these results from you. If you still have them, please mail me the results and the generated code. Regards, Mala Mala Anand E-mail:ma...@us... Linux Technology Center - Performance Phone:838-8088; Tie-line:678-8088 |