From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 10 16: 1:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAD737B6F1 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:57:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 9482A10DDF8; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:55:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:55:44 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nate Williams Cc: Terry Lambert , Kelly Yancey , Daniel Eischen , Dan Eischen , Peter Wemm , Archie Cobbs , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <20020110155544.S7984@elvis.mu.org> References: <3C3E1870.1E0DA81F@mindspring.com> <15422.6499.274704.270810@caddis.yogotech.com> <3C3E1C71.415334E2@mindspring.com> <15422.8123.659620.421602@caddis.yogotech.com> <3C3E264D.1BBB513@mindspring.com> <15422.10561.770884.650901@caddis.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15422.10561.770884.650901@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:52:33PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nate Williams [020110 15:52] wrote: > > Alfred's point was that if it were possible to make the FPU context > save/restore not done *everytime* (aka lazy binding), we should consider > it. I only provided a possible means to do the lazy binding, however I didn't say we should consider it unless it actually helps performance. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message