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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "Bodo Eggert" <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	"Daniel Marjamäki" <daniel.marjamaki@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Want comments regarding patch
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:42:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167478945.20929.442.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612301206090.26556@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>


> Yeah I don't do assembler soo often that I would know everything from heart.
> All your comments are valid of course. I just wanted to point out the idea.
> (However, if it's not repz, then it's repnz! :-)

it's better to use a gcc builtin than handcoding the asm yourself;
better for performance at least....
(gcc will pick the best code for the cpu you picked, and yes this
changes every generation or so)

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-30 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <7xn0j-6rY-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-12-30  0:00         ` Bodo Eggert
2006-12-30 11:07           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-30 11:42             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-28 18:41 Daniel Marjamäki
2006-12-28 18:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-28 23:52   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-29  6:57     ` Daniel Marjamäki
2006-12-29 10:13       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-28 20:07 ` Horst H. von Brand

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