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Re: i486 base architecture
- From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>
- To: arjanv redhat com, Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Cc:
- Subject: Re: i486 base architecture
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:02:46 -0800
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 09:11 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> for what it's worth... cmov isn't faster on newer (pM/pIV/amd64 level)
> CPUs than the open coded conditional jump anymore....
> so there no longer really is a reason to use cmov-only code.
>
CMOVcc will use less space in the instruction cache than the Jcc/MOV
pair, though.
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>
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