[ros-dev] RE: [ion] 19742: - ImplementRtlPrefectMemoryNonTemporal.Patch by Patrick Baggett<baggett.patrick@gmail.com> and myself.

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> (To be honest, my original idea was to
> use "nop" and overwrite it with "ret", but both Patrick (who wrote the
> patch) and MS were right in making it a "ret" by default and using "nop"
> to overwrite, since that's even faster).

I don't understand how a modified nop to a ret can be faster than a ret
generated at compile time, or vice versa. However, having a ret by
default makes more sense ;)

- Thomas