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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:02:43 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] powerpc: memory copy routines tweaked for Cell
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Arnd Bergmann writes:

> Have you tried running this code on other platforms to see if it
> actually performs worse on any of them? I would guess that the
> older code also doesn't work too well on Power 5 and Power 6,

Why would you guess that?

Paul.