Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:57:23 +0200 | From | Artur Skawina <> | Subject | Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > IMHO when the chksum become a big bottleneck for performances you > should have the cache hot. I think it worth to optimize the bottleneck > case. > > Anyway I am not very concerned about such minor performance improvement so > if you want to drop the performance part of the patch (the copy-and-chksum > one) I don't care at _all_. I only would like to have the known and > documented bug fixed.
"minor performance improvement" is apparently a relative term - IIRC your patch slows the checksum by 44% for the perfectly legal (even if uncommon) case of 2-byte aligned buffer...
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