RE: AMD optimizations?

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:33:55 +0100


> Some people apparently get gains on pentiums using mmx/fpu for memcpy.

Yes, I just read about the fpu patch on
http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/linux.html
As the AMD CPU's don't have pipelined FPU's, this probably isn't a good
thing
to apply for K6 systems, but it may have a good result on the Athlon.

regards,

Dave.

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