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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:23:44 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3a] i386: inline restore_fpu
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 at 10:38:40 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > 
> > This patch (may not apply cleanly to unpatched -rc3) drops overhead
> > a few more percent:
>
> That really is pretty ugly.
>
> I'd rather hope for something like function-sections to just make games 
> like this be unnecessary.

 The link stage might cause meltdown on typical machines, though.
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Chuck