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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 11, 2010 18:23 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by kunitz
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

> If that's the case the optimization shouldn't be enabled on Core i5

What would be the point of slowing down memcpy for all CPUs (by adding an extra check for cached CPU type variable value)? As long as the change doesn't slow down things for other CPUs, and considerably speeds it up on some, it sounds fine...


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