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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:06:35 +0000
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [BK+PATCH] remove __constant_memcpy
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In-Reply-To: <3E9F3D6F.9030501@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:49:03PM -0400
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:49:03PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Three tangents:
> 1) where did the 486 string ops go?

those were slower even on 80486, and broken as well

> 2) why no sse2-optimized memcpy?  just that noone has done one yet?

I've not moved the userspace prototype to kernelspace