Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled

2001-03-21 Thread Brian Raiter
>>> Since I would imagine a large percentage of FreeBSD users run on >>> i686 cores, it'd be great to get this pretty significant speed >>> increase into our tree. >> >> 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 68

Re: gzip's custom i386 asm should be disabled

2001-03-21 Thread Brian Raiter
>>> 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 cod