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"H. Peter Anvin" <> writes:
> My personal opinion is that if we can show no significant slowdown on
> P4, K8, P-M/Core 1, Core 2, and Nehalem then we can simply use this code

The issue is Core 2.

P4 uses a different path, and Core 1 doesn't use the 64bit code.

> unconditionally. If one of them is radically worse than baseline, then
> we have to do something conditional, which is a lot more complicated.

I have an older patchkit which did this, and some more optimizations
to this code.

There was still one open issue, that is why I didn't post it. If there's
interest I can post it.

-- -- Speaking for myself only.

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