Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> said:
[...]
> I suppose if you have a global pointer "current", you don't even need to
> do "andl" instruction. (But you will need to update "current" whenever a
> context switch happens, and you'll probably have a "current" array in the
> CMP version.)
A single memory access can cost you hundreds of cycles with current CPUs.
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