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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:17:17 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
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Subject: Re: TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
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Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> Now that is grossly inefficient ;-) since you can save one instruction by
> moving roll after adcl (hand edited partial patch hunk, won't apply):

Yes but is it _faster_? :-)

I've been doing some PPro assembly lately, and I'm reminded that
sometimes inserting instructions can reduce the timing by up to 8 cycles
or so.

-- Jamie
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