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<<On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:54:48 -0700, "Crist Clark" <crist.clark@globalstar.com> said:

> Personally, I like (b). It's right there for those who want it, but
> the bloat-watchers don't have to see that extra few bytes going to 
> kernelland.

I think this is reasonable.  With the way memory subsystems work these
days, we need to avoid wasting valuable cache in order to get the
maximum possible performance.

-GAWollman


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