Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch

Martin Mares (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:41:05 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> >> - testl %esi, %esi
> >> + clc
> >
> >you've just slowed the code down. clc does not pair. testl %esi, %esi
> >does.
>
> My machine (PII) was faster with clc.

I'm talking about the PII as well, clc _is_ slower. I would suspect your
benchmarking method is broken or nondeterministic?

-- mingo

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