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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:34:59 +0200
From: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove x86-specific implementations of find_first_bit
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:47:57PM +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> This patch should of course wait until it is decided if the generic
> version is good enough to replace the x86-specific ones. I hacked
> together a benchmark that people can run on different machines. It can
> be downloaded from:
> 
>    http://heukelum.fastmail.fm/find_first_bit

I now put a much more sound benchmarking program there. And its
results for P-IV-like Xeon, Athlon XP and Opteron for the current
and generic implementations.

Greetings,
	Alexander