> There has also been a patch on L-K which implments CMOV on prior-PPro
> processors. john
It has a hideous overhead. Just dont use cmov blindly in kernels. The kernel
stuff will take care not to let the compiler stick cmov instructions into
a non ppro+ kernel
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