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To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 2003 11:46:26 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 19:14:40 +0200
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Subject: Re: Optimizations. 
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In message <20030516184626.GB537@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes
:
>On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:59:52AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> >That's right:)
>> >Look at functions in /sys/kern/kern_tc.c. There are so many little
>> >functions. How about put __inline here and there?
>> 
>> Try it, and you'll find that things get slower because the code
>> gets bigger.
>
>Observed on what architecture?

i386, but it takes a _lot_ to get a stddev on your measurements
which allow you to measure this in real-world applications.


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