Re: [PATCH 0/4] Really lazy fpu

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Jun 16 2010 - 05:45:01 EST


On 06/16/2010 12:01 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Ingo Molnar, le Wed 16 Jun 2010 10:39:41 +0200, a écrit :
in the long run most processes will be using the FPU due to SIMM
instructions.
I believe glibc already uses SIMM instructions for e.g. memcpy and
friends, i.e. basically all applications...

I think they ought to be using 'rep movs' on newer processors, but yes you're right.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/