> >>> I sure hope I'm not the only one with a "lab" of 4 FreeBSD
> >>> machines that are all 486s or 586s.
> >>
> >> You may find that the 686 assembly is as fast on a 386/486/586 as
> >> the old assembly is. Maybe you could test it and let the list know?
> >
> > I was under the impression that the 586/686 code uses instructions
> > that are not present on 386/486 machines, so I doubt that it would
> > help.
>
> Bite your tongue! The youngest instruction in my patches is movzx,
> which was introduced with the 386.
Serves me right for not looking at the patches (no thanks to my flaky cable
connection.)
My bad assumption that code optimized for 586/686 would be 586/686-specific.
I'll go away now :)
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Matt Emmerton
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