From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 27 05:20:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA10130 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 05:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA10114 Sat, 27 Jan 1996 05:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id OAA08477; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:15:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00351; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:14:05 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:14:04 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: John Dyson cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good news -- pipe stuff In-Reply-To: <199601261541.HAA09194@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, John Dyson wrote: > > I am in the process of creating a new pipe mechanism. Our pipes > have been a bit slower than they should be, considering the simple > functionality that they perform. The latest results that I get > show significant performance improvements in both the Byte and lmbench > benchmarks on pipe latency, pipe bandwidth, and pipe context switch. Wow ! These are the benchmark areas where Linux typically showed better numbers... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<