From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 10:07:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13806 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13800 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA18693; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:06:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA25928; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:06:24 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:06:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199811231806.LAA25928@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: John Polstra , joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no> References: <86hfvuia7y.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <199811181842.KAA06180@apollo.backplane.com> <3.0.5.32.19981120103442.0099f460@mail.scancall.no> <199811201714.JAA18156@vashon.polstra.com> <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Of course we don't. Nobody who cares about speed is going to use a 486. > > Are you saying that we're going to say to people "Hey, FreeBSD is not > intended to run on anything less than a Pentium, we don't wish to get > involved with anything less, the people out there who're stuck with a 486 > had better go support Linux instead?" Huh? No, what *was* said that for the .01% performance increase on slow hardware it isn't worth the extra complexity it gives to the entire code-base. If you need it faster, use a faster processor. This is just good engineering. Optimization is only done if positively affects the majority of your users. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message