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Does anyone know...

Posted Dec 20, 2002 11:53 UTC (Fri) by hjernemadsen (subscriber, #5676)
In reply to: Does anyone know... by wolfrider
Parent article: How to speed up system calls

If I remember correctly, the sysenter instruction is not present on AMD
processors. But it really doesn't matter as the normal int $0x80 approach
on an AMD is faster than sysenter on a P4...

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