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Speeding up the page allocator

Speeding up the page allocator

Posted Feb 27, 2009 0:01 UTC (Fri) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366)
In reply to: Speeding up the page allocator by iabervon
Parent article: Speeding up the page allocator

I was more banking on the processor realizing it doesn't even have to attempt branch prediction. *shrug*

As another poster said, rep may or may not be faster/slower than open coded loops.


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