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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r333240 - in head/sys: powerpc/powerpc sys
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On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 10:38:29AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> ...
> Summary: this change wouldn't have passed my review.  I have used similar
> changes for 15-20 years but never made them production quality since there
> are too many variations to consider and testing showed insignificant
> improvements except for micro-benchmarks.

Perhaps Foundation could sponsor your work to make them production quality
Bruce.  :-)

Seriously though, I'm a bit worried to see these commits happening at the
same time correctness of the implementation is still under discussion and
disputes.  Shall I expect that after my next -CURRENT update things would
suddenly stop working? [1]

./danfe

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477