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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:47:32 +1300
From: "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel?
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On 12/11/06, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> As I understand it the argument in favour of smaller kernels isn't that they
> free-up memory for other uses, it's that they make better uses of memory
> cache.
>
> OTOH big blocks of code that are rarely entered probably aren't going to
> degrade performance much.

Security through less code? Hmm, dunno.


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Juha
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