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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: Good news -- pipe stuff
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> Pipe latency is about 2x the speed, pipe bandwidth is about 50% faster,
> and I am still evaluating the context switch -- but it is faster.

Go Johnny go, go, Johnny be *good*. :-)

[ For those international folks who didn't understand that, it's the
words to be an old Chuck Barry song. ]


Nate