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To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
Cc: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>,
        hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: TSS and context switch
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From: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 1999 21:53:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Ron G. Minnich"'s message of Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:25:16 -0500 (EST)
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"Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> writes:

> I'm assuming you measured all this and determined that TSS was faster? 
> 
> Ron
Let's make it simpler for him.  Why don't you just let him look
in the architecture manual for the 386/486/586 and PII and see
how many cycles the load and save takes compared to what is done
in practice.

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