Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:14:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Scott <gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> Cc: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br>, shannon stees <shadyshay@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: researching FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000508121449.A17425@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.1000508140546.27716A-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>; from gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:06:35PM -0400 References: <3916CF65.8BC7835A@tdnet.com.br> <Pine.A41.3.96.1000508140546.27716A-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>
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> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > > > shannon stees wrote: > > > What is the language in which FreeBSD is written? > > > > Are you serious? > > It's C. > * Scott <gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> [000508 11:40] wrote: > > This question and your answer makes me wonder. Are there no ASM > optimizations that have been made? ASM optimizations are done for some key kernel routines and C library routines as well as places where C can not reach low enough to provide the hardware/CPU twiddling needed for the job. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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