Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply.

Erno Kuusela (erno@iki.fi)
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:28:55 +0300


hello,

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Brad Pepers wrote:

| I've noticed that on my Athalon 1.4GHz system (Asus A7V133), I get results
| quite a bit higher than reported here when running the athalon.c program.
| For example everyone posting seemed to get 4000-5000 cycles per page for the
| clear_page fuctions "faster_clear_page" and "even_faster_clear" while mine is
| in the 6300-6700 range. Does this indicate I'm missing some BIOS
| optimizations? Slow memory? Something else?

you have a faster cpu (but same speed memory) - so more
cycles pass by when doing memory operations.

-- erno
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