Re: "optimized" assembly functions in wine

[David Laight]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:53:35PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Rein Klazes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just did not feel like chasing bugs the other day. I decided to have
> > some fun with something that I wondering for a long time: the usefulness
> > of inline i86 assembly in string functions.
>
> Well, you could do unrolling and larger block moves and the like.

mmm displacing the rest of the programs working set from the I-cache.
> However, more speed would be gained from other algorithmical changes.

Like avoiding the use of 'rep movs' for small values of %ecx

David