From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 20 15:57:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09351 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:57:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09346 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (andyf@localhost) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA06877; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:55:53 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: backup.zippynet.iol.net.au: andyf owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:55:53 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.zippynet.iol.net.au To: John Polstra cc: joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model In-Reply-To: <199811201714.JAA18156@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, John Polstra wrote: > Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > >>> On the 386 and 486, call gates are faster. On the pentium, > > >>> pentium-PRO, and pentium-II, interrupts are faster. > > > With regards to this, might it not be a good idea to use a different > > > syscall convention, based on whether you've got the 486/384 options in your > > > kernel or not? > > > > It would require changing libc to read the kernel config file. Do we > > really want to mess with this? > > Of course we don't. Nobody who cares about speed is going to use a 486. > > John Hey...I resent that! My 486 has been hummin' along for several years at a leiserly 66MHz. I care about speed, its just that I ain't got none! - cracks rc5 at a steady 55K keys/sec :-) -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speed Internet Services http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message