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On Gwe, 2003-04-18 at 20:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <3EA0469D.7090602@pobox.com>
> > 
> > Which is better?  I don't know; I'm still learning the performance 
> > eccentricities of x86 insns on various processors.
> > 
> 
> It varies from porocessor to processor, and also depends on usage.

Stepping to stepping, even clock speed at stepping in the case of some B
series pentiums. For large copies we hit the kernel optimised stuff like
MMX copiers, for small copies its irrelevant