Re: BogoMIPS

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:41:36 +0100

On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 08:54:16AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> That's what my patch does in the seperate subroutine. Further, it aligns
> the delay-loop, not the code leading up to it. Further, it makes sure
> I am not sitting on the end of a cache-line by taking two jumps before
> the actual loop.

The alignment I understand, but the two jumps? I don't understand what
you mean -- i.e., how do the jumps help. I don't think I'll be alone.

Could you include a comment with the code explaining why it has two
jumps?

-- Jamie

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