Gilboa Davara wrote: > BTW, certain operations (atomic operations/counters/etc) -require- asm > code. > In an age where GCC, probably the least optimizing compiler among all popular compilers, is able to unroll loops and submit them, in parallel, to a vector processor (such as the MMX and its successors), I highly doubt that the above statement is true.
I will also point out that some "atomic operations" are, actually, old legacy from the 8080 and 8086 days, and actually perform *slower* than their multi-instruction counter parts (the command "loop" is one example that comes to mind). > - Gilboa Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
