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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:46:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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Subject: Re: 7.52 second kernel compile
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] N?tzel wrote:
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> it seems to be that it depends on gcc and flags.

That instability doesn't seem to show up on a PII. Interesting. Looks like 
the athlon may be reordering TLB accesses, while the PII apparently 
doesn't.

Or maybe the program is just flawed, and the interesting 1/8 pattern comes 
from something else altogether.

			Linus

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