On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 03:57:41PM +0930, Giridhari wrote:
> Further, can you tell me what the cp and cpio commands would be
> like- will they take advantage of 64 or 128bit memory reads and
> writes?
First you talk about memory copies, and now I/O? Your questions are
impossible to answer. Much too vague.
Make yourself a test setup and do measurements.
-Otto
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Otto Moerbeek
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:37 PM
> To: Giridhari
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: 64bit (or better) memory reads in i386
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 03:35:00PM +0930, Giridhari wrote:
>
> >Thankyou for the prompt reply.
> >
> >Excuse me please, I made a mistake. I meant 64bit Intel hardware.
>
> Intel makes loads of processors doing just that.
> >
> >-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Dempsky Sent: Sunday, June
> >12, 2011 3:25 PM To: Giridhari Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re:
> >64bit (or better) memory reads in i386
> >
> >On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Giridhari <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>Is there much activity in porting OpenBSD to x64 architecture?
> >
> >http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
