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Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg



"Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca> wrote:

Hi,

> I'm with Linus on this: let's just revert to the old behaviour.  A
> tiny amount of clock cycles saved isn't worth the instability.

Tiny amount?! The optimized memcpy() variants that break shitty code
bring a 4 to 5x speedup on the processors they've been written for!

JB.

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