Re: Ideas for reducing memory copying and zeroing times (fwd)

Michael Riepe (riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de)
Sat, 20 Apr 1996 03:39:59 +0200

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Linus wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Michael Riepe wrote:
> >
> > I guess the fastest (and shortest) way to do that on an 80x86 is:
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> No, the fastest, and shortest way to do it is
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> Which is in fact exactly how linux does it..
>
> Of course, if you have an old x86 chip, that's your problem and you may
> not get optimal performance, but who expected anything else from old
> hardware?

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