Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:17:44 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, julian@ref.tfs.com Cc: geli.com!rcarter@implode.root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu, toor@jsdinc.root.com Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. Message-ID: <199504250717.RAA20701@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> FreeBSD's low level context switching is faster than Linux's because >> hardware tasking is not used. Perhaps there is a lot more bloat in >> ... >Bill Jolitz actually recanted on this.. >in 386BSD, he as used the LINUX scheme of the 386 built-in >context switches.... >he eventually decided the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.. >I believe he decided that, in the big picture, the CISC operation was faster >than the "do-it-yourself" version. In 386BSD-0.2? How much faster is it? Bruce
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