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.
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Peace,
William
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