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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:47:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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To: Alex <akhripin@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Slight optimizations to entry.S patch
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Alex wrote:

> Hi,
> I was familiarizing (or trying to) myself with the i386 architecture code,
> and saw a few possible optimizations. I think they can save a few cycles (not
> that many). Can someone comment? Are the changes worthwhile?

The first page of your x86 book starts talking about read-after-write
pipeline stall ? Damn what a book :)




- Davide



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