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Date:      Sat, 17 May 1997 11:19:38 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>, hutton@isi.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: throughtput measurements for fast ethernet
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970517111658.20339B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199705161601.SAA01821@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> Interesting.
> 
> a) I don't know how efficient the bzero() is (inline? #idef KERNEL?)
>    over a statementwise zeroing of a 20 byte structure and why this.

I think he's alluding to an object caching scheme where you don't
initialize structures except when you have to.  Doing nothing is always
faster no matter how much you optimize bzero.

Mike Hancock




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