On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> I haven't looked at the code, but I'm guessing the sse code uses
> NTA instructions that avoid polluting the cache. that's far more
> of an advantage than a small difference in speed. especially since
> it's physically impossible that you'll be using more than say,
> 200 MB/s.
Ok :) I agree. But this behaviour looks strange at first time.
I think kernel should print a message like "Forced using pIII_sse".
Best regards,
Krzysztof Oledzki
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