From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: clemens-dated-1063536166.2852@endorphin.org, joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:21:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309051221.h85CL5rV000307@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
> Do some benchmarks on lots of different machines and measure the
> performance of the asm and c code. If it's faster on PPro but not on
> PIII or Athlon, forget about it.
Presumably the asm code is tuned for a specific processor, and
intended to be used only on kernels optimised for that CPU.
On the other hand, unless it's translated to gas, it's more or less
useless in the context of the kernel - remember the 'perl in the
toolchain' discussion?
John.
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-05 12:07 UTC|newest]
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2003-09-05 12:21 John Bradford [this message]
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2003-09-08 20:08 ` nasm over gas? Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-09-08 12:03 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-08 16:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:45 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 16:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 17:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-09-05 13:57 John Bradford
2003-09-05 15:39 ` Mehmet Ceyran
2003-09-06 20:24 ` David B. Stevens
2003-09-05 12:25 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-06 22:08 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-09-07 20:40 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 10:42 Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 12:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 13:44 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 14:21 ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-04 14:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 15:09 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:55 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 21:16 ` George Anzinger
2003-09-04 14:57 ` Michael Frank
2003-09-04 15:43 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 22:28 ` insecure
2003-09-05 12:59 ` Michael Frank
2003-09-05 17:28 ` insecure
2003-09-05 17:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-06 17:18 ` insecure
2003-09-07 18:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 19:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 21:37 ` insecure
2003-09-09 21:34 ` insecure
2003-09-11 11:07 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 15:26 ` insecure
2003-09-12 17:27 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 22:17 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-13 19:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:51 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-11 14:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 17:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 20:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-05 13:27 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-05 23:51 ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-09-06 1:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-04 14:56 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 11:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:04 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 12:37 ` Jörn Engel
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