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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:21:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Kevin Lawton <kevinlawton2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Simple patches for Linux as a guest OS in a plex86 VM (please consider)
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--- Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> Yes, what you do is nice, but generates much code. What about
> this for pushfl:

Your code snipped is 10% slower.  I'm not sure if it's the extra
stack activity or the 8bit user of registers (which can
pose a hazard to the execution stream on some processors).
I'm gunning for high performance.

-Kevin

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