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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: isa bus and boca multiport boards
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At 01:45 PM 5/22/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote:
 
>Can you link this percieved slowdown to any particular change(s)?  The
>basic structure of the sio driver hasn't changed "recently".

Well, I haven't updated this machine since 2.1.0-R. And the old driver WAS
much faster. As for what caused this: Would have to profile the code. (By
the time I could do that, I could probably learn to write a "super sio"
that was x86-specific.)

--Brett