On 19 sep 2013, at 19:23, Brad Smith wrote:
> That is in the kernel not libc.
Yes, I know.
Can't it be re-used instead of maintaining same file in two places?
//mxb
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:23:19PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 19/09/13 7:47 AM, mxb wrote:
> >
> >This file is already in base.
> >/usr/src/sys/lib/libkern/arch/amd64/memset.S
>
> That is in the kernel not libc.
Indeed. I recall seeing a macro called "COPY_TO_KERNEL" or something. I
probably n
On 19/09/13 7:47 AM, mxb wrote:
This file is already in base.
/usr/src/sys/lib/libkern/arch/amd64/memset.S
That is in the kernel not libc.
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I can spot few differences:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/lib/libkern/arch/amd64/memset.S?rev=1.3;content-type=text%2Fplain
and
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.2.0/lib/libc/amd64/string/memset.S?revision=218742&view=markup
though I am not familiar wit
This file is already in base.
/usr/src/sys/lib/libkern/arch/amd64/memset.S
On 18 sep 2013, at 20:28, Edd Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 07:08:31PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
>> In short, each experiment warms up by setting and checking a load of buffers
>> before setting as many buffe
On 18.09.2013 22:08, Edd Barrett wrote:
Hi,
A few weeks back (at a PyPy sprint) someone asked me why amd64/OpenBSD
has no assembler implementation of memset(3). After asking on icb, there
were a couple of theories:
a) Perhaps the available assembler implementations of memset are slower
t
Hi,
A few weeks back (at a PyPy sprint) someone asked me why amd64/OpenBSD
has no assembler implementation of memset(3). After asking on icb, there
were a couple of theories:
a) Perhaps the available assembler implementations of memset are slower
than our C one.
b) Perhaps due to a), no-one
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 07:08:31PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
> In short, each experiment warms up by setting and checking a load of buffers
> before setting as many buffers as possible given a one minute timeframe. The
> experiments were run with varying buffer sizes under both memset.S and
> memse
