On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:23:28PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > There are many effects that could cause this, for instance if FreeBSD > > manages to align things differently in relation to the CPU cache you > > could get some very interesting waste of time that way. > > > > Based on the data you show me, I can't really say that something is > > wrong or right either way. > > One thing that Linux does that we do not do is that they have different > versions of libc compiled specifically for different cpu types, and at > boot time set the correct paths. eg: /lib/i386/libc.so.6.whatever > > This means that Linux's glibc is using an i686 optimized bzero(), but > the FreeBSD one is using an i386 optimized bzero().
This could easily be hung off CPUTYPE like we do for the asm code in OpenSSL, right? Kris
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