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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:49:35 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
To:        John Regehr <regehr@cs.utah.edu>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204040847430.10620-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204032331160.24874-100000@famine.cs.utah.edu>

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, John Regehr wrote:

> > > Have you tried benchmarking process to process context switch times to see
> > > if the results are similar?
> 
> No, that's a good idea.  My infrastructure isn't set up to support
> processes, though, so it'll take a little time.

I'd be surprised if there was a difference in context switch times...

> > Also:
> > You should run both linuxthreads binaries compile on linux (using
> > emulation) and compiled on FreeBSD.  it would be interesting to see
> > if there is a difference..
> 
> There does not appear to be a statistically significant difference
> between a native binary and an emulated Linux binary.

Wouldn't the only place you'd notice slight overhead be syscalls?

	Zwane

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