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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. (Really context switch & FPU)
To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:12:30 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, mycroft@ai.mit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199504252342.QAA25442@netcom2.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 25, 95 04:42:34 pm
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Well, you guys, when can we see the code ??

> I didn't explain.  Sorry!  I assumed we would want to do
> lazy FP context save/restore.  Once you do that, further
> refinements don't buy you very much.  If you reread what I
> wrote _in this context_, may be it will make more sense.
> 
> > o       The FPU has a "last used by" state variable
> > o       When the first FPU using process is run, this variable is
> >         set to its PID.
> Okay.
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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