Re: 3DNow! patches on Winchip.

Dave Jones (dave@denial.force9.co.uk)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:34:58 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > For the record, the uncached integer copy took Just under 38 minutes.
> > Unbelievably painful.
>
> I actually meant copying cached data versus copying data not currently in cache
> rather than turning the cache off. The two tend not to be the same

Sorry..
Copying the same 4kb page 524288 times

mmx: 16 seconds
int: 2m 36 seconds

Seems extraordinarily high..
Should I be bencmarking against the memcpy() in lib/string.c,
or the one in include/asm/string.h ?

d.

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