Re: Ideas for reducing memory copying and zeroing times

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:37:00 -0400


Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:32:47 -0500
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx>

> With the UltraSparc they have the same similar bcopy hardware
> available but the FPU can be used efficiently now for such purposes
> because there is a special load/store which can throw the entire
> floating point register set to/from memory (64 64-bit registers ==
> 512k at a time).

isn't that 512 bytes at a time?

duh, stupid typo, thanks for catching it ;)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu