Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:42:33 +0000

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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 10:25:37AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The demonstration code was an example of how to pipeline
> something that is, buy it's nature, capable of being
> pipelined. It is not a fix for something that is not
> broken.

If you want pipelining, why not help the GCC folks implement better
instruction scheduling? One guy is claiming speedups of 30% or more
just from better experimental scheduling for an AMD K6.

-- Jamie

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