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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:21:05 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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To: clemens-dated-1063536166.2852@endorphin.org, joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
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> 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.