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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:50:51 +0200
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

>  - generalized bitops - they are faster and smaller.

Faster in a 100% bogus benchmark with the most unrealistic input data
set one can imagine with some effort. They might be faster or they
might be slower, nobody really knows currently.

-Andi