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Date:      Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:42:08 -0800
From:      Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64 bit counters again
Message-ID:  <3C423770.5000308@isi.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.41.0201132057560.62182-100000@prg.traveller.cz> <3C41F3FD.4ECC8CD@mindspring.com> <20020113223351.A42689@FreeBSD.org> <3C4231E5.1B7FA359@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:

> Though I do think doing the calculation is unnecessarily
> high overhead for 32 bit processors...

Well, if machines are fast enough to generate enough data to overflow 
the counters quickly, the 64bit operations can't be that much of an 
overhead... ;-)

But I agree that it should probably be made optional for embedded 
systems and such.

Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>               Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/              University of Southern California


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