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strength-reduction optimisation on Intel CPU's

Russell Coker (rjc@snoopy.virtual.net.au)
Sun Jun 15 09:02:00 1997

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21-strength-red-op.patch

Here's a patch which enables strength-reduction optimisation on Intel architecture, it should speed things up as discussed on the Linux-kernel list. It requires GCC 2.7.2.2 or higher, and may cause serious loss of data on earlier versions of GCC.

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