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>> >> Is that true even on the 32-bit Athlons, especially the older ones? > > It is not the recommended form for Athlons (see my other mail) > But I doubt it's a big issue. The Athlon has a pretty good decoder. Doesn't Athlon do best with just a string of 0x90 because it treats it as a real NOP and discards it very early in the CPU pipeline? It broke the bogomips estimator when they were introduced... ------ Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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