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Re: [opensuse-programming] Which assembler ?
- From: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:35:37 +0100
- Message-id: <20100101203537.GZ31833@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:27:49PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Are you _sure_ that what was highly optimized in pentium times will
perform better than C code optimized for a current processor? I suggest
that you pick few routines and try to compare performance.
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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A complete rewrite in C is not an option - the vast majority of this
code does math and such, and is highly optimized/specialized/tweaked
(no pipeline stalls etc).
Are you _sure_ that what was highly optimized in pentium times will
perform better than C code optimized for a current processor? I suggest
that you pick few routines and try to compare performance.
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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