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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:58:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> You can call intersegment with a full pointer. I don't know how
> expensive that is.

It's so expensive as to not be worth it, it's cheaper to load a register
or something, i eyou can do

	pushl $0xfffff000
	call *(%esp)

faster than doing a far call.

		Linus

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