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lutoma opened this issue Jul 8, 2021 · 0 comments
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Only enable SSE instructions on-demand #98

lutoma opened this issue Jul 8, 2021 · 0 comments
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improvement tasks Task management, scheduler and syscalls

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lutoma commented Jul 8, 2021

Currently SSE is enabled for all processes and SSE registers are stored and restored for all tasks on context switches. To improve performance a bit, we should only enable SSE for processes that actually use it (By intercepting a CPU fault on first use probably) and skip the register save.
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