From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 11 08:48:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11186 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11168; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA09098; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:48:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson To: Mike Haertel cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about "ed" driver performance on ASUS SP3G & 486DX4/100 In-Reply-To: <199708110551.WAA03617@ducky.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Mike Haertel wrote: > I tried 16-bit copies; they were a little slower (about 16 and 18 > seconds on the P5-90 and 486-100 respectively). I'd be interested to see what you get with 8-bit copies. Did you drop the board into 16-bit mode before doing your 16-bit reads, BTW? I'm not sure if it makes a difference on reads, but it certainly does on writes. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.