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Date:      Sun, 16 Aug 1998 14:16:24 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendfile() API? 
Message-ID:  <26941.903302184@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:47:09 %2B0200." <35D7292D.7FBBA95@pipeline.ch> 

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> They state sendfile() gives excellent Webserver performace, isn't that
> somthing for FreeBSD?

Predicated on two things, both of which I raised at the Apache core
developers meeting recently:

1. A reasonable (e.g. not HP/UX's) API is established by those who're
   going to use it so that we know just what precisely it is we're supposed
   to implement.

2. Some sort of benchmark suite is developed to show when and where
   this *actually helps* so that we can justify the addition of
   sendfile() to FreeBSD (or any other OS, for that matter).

I'm still waiting for either of those things to happen, and until then
it's a reasonable assumption that demand is just not that significant
yet.

- Jordan

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