Re: [patch] entry.S asm improvement (removed some ugly jmp)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:21:38 -0800 (PST)

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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> This my patch (from arca-33) should be obviously right and will improve
> performance...

Have you actually tested it? It breaks any branch prediction hardware that
uses a return stack.

Linus

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