From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261214AbTIFRSu (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261271AbTIFRSt (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:18:49 -0400 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:14855 "HELO 127.0.0.1") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261214AbTIFRSs (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:18:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: insecure Reply-To: insecure@mail.od.ua To: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rn=20Engel?= Subject: Re: nasm over gas? Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:18:36 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: Michael Frank , Yann Droneaud , fruhwirth clemens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030904104245.GA1823@leto2.endorphin.org> <200309052028.37367.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20030905174508.GA24951@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> In-Reply-To: <20030905174508.GA24951@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200309062018.04316.insecure@mail.od.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 05 September 2003 20:45, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 5 September 2003 20:28:37 +0300, insecure wrote: > > What gives you an impression that anyone is going to rewrite linux in > > asm? I _only_ saying that compiler-generated asm is not 'good'. It's > > mediocre. > > Depends. A couple weeks back, I've entered the Linuxtag coding > contest with a friend. The objective was to optimize some matrix > multiplication. We've produced *much* faster code than anyone who > tried to do it in assembler and we entered the contest during a slow > hour, when it was half over. Can I see the code? -- vda