Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:27:37 +0300 | From | Petko Manolov <> | Subject | Re: [patch] string-486.h modified |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > > I realy would like to see this code in use ;-) > > After you test it **THOUROUGHLY**, send a patch to Linus. I > recommend testing it in a user-mode program with all kinds of > sizes/shapes/lengths/offsets, etc., and making certain that you > don't destroy any registers that are "precious" for the > usual versions of gcc.
I already have running kernels compiled with gcc-2.92.2 and 2.7.2.3 but this is far from the end of the story. I am looking for the source of large user level program which massively uses string procedures in order to stress the register allocator of the compiler - may be XFree86 is a good choice.
> If your patch doesn't hurt anything, even if it only adds marginal > performance, I'm pretty sure that Linus will accept it.
May be. Linus hardly accepts such general patches in this moment ;-) I'll need the comments from many people around.
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