From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4O4Qmv04316 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:26:48 -0700 Received: from mail.foobazco.org (snowman.foobazco.org [198.144.194.230]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4O4QhF04310; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:26:43 -0700 Received: from galt.foobazco.org (galt.foobazco.org [198.144.194.227]) by mail.foobazco.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F29F1A9; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galt.foobazco.org (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 42AF0BBE0; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:25:35 -0700 From: Keith M Wesolowski To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Florian Lohoff , Jun Sun , Joe deBlaquiere , ralf@oss.sgi.com, Pete Popov , George Gensure , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel Message-ID: <20010523212535.C10516@foobazco.org> References: <20010523205412.A10981@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:44:36PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:44:36PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > solve a single inefficiency of ISA I code when run on better CPUs. You > really want to recompile code to make use of new instructions if you care > about performance. I agree. Therefore I am sure some MIPS I users will be happy to build special glibcs for their ISA. -- Keith M Wesolowski http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work." -- The fortune file