Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:27:17 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > optimizations carry across hardware speed increases? The only moment when
> > you should have to add more assembly would be when supporting a new
> > architecture or chip..
> No, 486 is so different from Pentium that you want to rewrite assembly
> in order to make it efficient.

well, that's what I meant by different chip.. :)

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