Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 09:56:27 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:38:48AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Harvey Harrison
> <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's called be16_to_cpup, or on x86, swab16p()
>
> Indeed. If now somebody with an Atom could test whether using movbe
> has an advantage (my guess is that there is a slight advantage) then

How would you test that?

-Andi

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