Re:ZFS Deduplication
by Hoff on Monday November 02, 2009 @07:37PM
(#918299)
VAX had a CRC instruction.
While it might seem flippant to compare VAX to x86, it was found (on VAX) that a programmer could potentially get better aggregate performance by avoiding that instruction; that having an instruction doesn't automatically mean that the code is faster.
While it might seem flippant to compare VAX to x86, it was found (on VAX) that a programmer could potentially get better aggregate performance by avoiding that instruction; that having an instruction doesn't automatically mean that the code is faster.