linux-kernel - Re: Change x86 prefix order

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Date:	Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:00:47 -0800
From:	"H. J. Lu" <hjl@...on.org>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Cc:	rdunlap@...otime.net, gcc@....gnu.org,
	libc-alpha@...rces.redhat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change x86 prefix order

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:52:39PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> If hardware x86 decoders (i.e., Intel or AMD processors)
> get measurably faster with the new order, that would be
> a good reason to change it.

I was told that AMD processors had no preferences and Intel processors
preferred the proposed order.

H.J.
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