skaller wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:45 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:This is not true. If you use a register for any purpose like this, it can't be used for anything else and that has a cost.This is a segment register. Please go and read about what segment registers.I know how the x86 works quite well .. perhaps unfortunately I've written several major applications in x86 assembler (includinga complete text editor).
in which case you should understand that the use of FS is free
