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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 08:05:15 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        HARDWARE@freebsd.org, rberndt@nething.com, WELCHDW@wofford.edu
Subject:   Re: isa bus and boca multiport boards
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970521080515.0075bc30@lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199705210705.RAA10446@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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At 05:05 PM 5/21/97 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 
>I try to avoid it, and enjoy making serial drivers written in C several
>times more efficient than previous and competing versions written in
>assembler :-).

How about the best of both? By your own analysis, any approach that avoids
extra ISA I/O operations is a big win. So is any solution that can drop a
slew of pointer dereferences (even if the ratio is 1:16) and avoids polling
ports extra times....

--Brett




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