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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:37:06 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
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Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:46:47AM -0800, you [H. Peter Anvin] wrote:
> 
> SYSCALL is AMD.  SYSENTER is Intel, and is likely to be significantly

Now that Linus has killed the dragon and everybody seems happy with the
shiny new SYSENTER code, let just add one more stupid question to this
thread: has anyone made benchmarks on SYSCALL/SYSENTER/INT80 on Athlon? Is
SYSCALL worth doing separately for Athlon (and perhaps Hammer/32-bit mode)?


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