Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jun 18 00:13:11 UTC 2009
David Woodhouse wrote:
> I'm after a system-wide answer, not a microbenchmark for zlib or crypto
> code. It should take into account any overheads involved in
> saving/restoring registers on context switch that wouldn't otherwise
> have to be saved/restored.
Doesn't the kernel have to save/restore them anyway? Or how does it know
that a program doesn't contain any SSE assembly?
Kevin Kofler
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