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From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
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>> These are all surmountable problems but I would rather not gate
>> acceptance of this code on a satisfactory resolution of the above
>> issues. I can provide output from the cortex-strings benchmark quite
>> instead though.
> 
> If your summary of the benchmarking discussion indicates that the existing 
> glibc benchmark is not relevant for the cases addressed by the patch, then 
> it's indeed appropriate to give such results from another benchmark.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Carlos.