meant to send this to the list too... sorry > Are you implying DragonFly uses FPU/SIMD? For that matter does any kernel?
I believe it does use SIMD for some of it's fast memcopy stuff for it's messaging system actually. I remember Matt saying he was working on it. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2004-04/msg00262.html If you can manage the alignment issues it can be a huge win. Dave > > Thanks, > jason > > > - optimizations for Intel CPUs direct from the manufacturer of the CPU > > (they have a lot of interest to produce very fast code) > > - a different set of compiler warnings > > - better code quality (if is compilable by more than one compiler it > > may be more portable) > > > >Icc already pointed out some bad code (asm code in the IP checksumming > >code... DragonFly changed it already), and the panic as noticed above > >may also be an indication that we have some code in the tree which > >smells bad. > > > >Bye, > >Alexander. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
