Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/arch/i386/string
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@meinberlikomm.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/03/2005 22:33:57
David Laight wrote:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	dsl
> Date:		Thu Feb  3 22:05:01 UTC 2005
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/lib/libc/arch/i386/string: bzero.S memset.S
> 
> Log Message:
> A faster implementation.
> 'rep stos' is slow to setup on modern processors, so don't use it to
> align the transfer.
> Also not that 8 byte alignment is faster on Intel processors
mh btw, is someone working on 
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=25263 ???

regards,
SK