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Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd guess that this version features improved pipeline parallelism,
> since we isolate competing %ebx accesses (_syscall4()) and
> stack push operations (_syscall5()), right?

is anybody actually EVER using those???
I would think not....