Re: Interesting backtrace...

[Bruce Evans]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jake Burkholder wrote:

[bde wrote]
> > Wrong yourself.  The fpu is too slow to use for copying for everything
> > except original Pentiums.  The bandwidth test is just done to avoid hard-
> > configuring this knowledge.
> 
> If this is the case, is there much point in keeping the fpu register
> bcopy and bzero at all?

Original Pentiums still exist, and copying through the FPU might be faster
on future i386's.

Bruce


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