Re: 64bit (or better) memory reads in i386

[Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda]

Asking on a mailing list is easier than doing testing... it seems...

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Giridhari <giridh...@live.com.au> wrote:
> Further, can you tell me what the cp and cpio commands would be like- will
> they take advantage of 64 or 128bit memory reads and writes?
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Otto Moerbeek
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:37 PM
> To: Giridhari
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: 64bit (or better) memory reads in i386
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 03:35:00PM +0930, Giridhari wrote:
>
>> Thankyou for the prompt reply.
>>
>> Excuse me please, I made a mistake. I meant 64bit Intel hardware.
>
> Intel makes loads of processors doing just that.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Dempsky Sent: Sunday, June
>> 12, 2011 3:25 PM To: Giridhari Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re:
>> 64bit (or better) memory reads in i386
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Giridhari <giridh...@live.com.au> wrote:
>> >Is there much activity in porting OpenBSD to x64 architecture?
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html