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Date:      Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:49:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911050049150.18969-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199911050230.SAA00664@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> Sysctl is faster than kstat once you have performed the name->oid 
> lookup.  There is basically nothing that kstat can do that sysctl can't 
> do better and faster, apart from lookup-by-name.

Except for dynamic registration right?

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