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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:01:11 +0000
Subject: RE: optimize __gp location
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>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:57:53 -0800, "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> said:

  Ken> 4% of total cpu stall cycles.  6% of all memory references (in
  Ken> kernel space).  Though they are very concentrated to a few
  Ken> cache lines.

Sounds pretty promising.

	--david