i486 base architecture

William M. Quarles quarlewm at jmu.edu
Tue Nov 30 06:33:14 UTC 2004


Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 19:46 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would, but are there any free ways of doing benchmarks?  Not to 
>>mention I'm not really much of a programmer, so I don't know what 
>>oprofile/gprof are.
> 
> for what it's worth... cmov isn't faster on newer (pM/pIV/amd64 level)
> CPUs than the open coded conditional jump anymore....
> so there no longer really is a reason to use cmov-only code.

More terminology that I am not aware of... cmov?  I know that I'm a 
novice about development, you don't have to further proove it to me.

----
Peace,
William




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