>>> I sure hope I'm not the only one with a "lab" of 4 FreeBSD
>>> machines that are all 486s or 586s.
>>
>> You may find that the 686 assembly is as fast on a 386/486/586 as
>> the old assembly is. Maybe you could test it and let the list know?
>
> I was under the impression that the 586/686 code uses instructions
> that are not present on 386/486 machines, so I doubt that it would
> help.
Bite your tongue! The youngest instruction in my patches is movzx,
which was introduced with the 386.
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