Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:42:25 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: "'dyson@iquest.net'" <dyson@iquest.net>, wes@softweyr.com Cc: crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: High syscall overhead? Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179666@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: John S. Dyson [SMTP:dyson@iquest.net] > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 6:58 PM > To: wes@softweyr.com > Cc: crossd@cs.rpi.edu; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: High syscall overhead? > > Think of it like this: since alot of desktops sit in idle loops much > of the time, perhaps the Linux philosophy has been to improve such > behavior :-). > [ML] Do you remember the old anecdote about a profiled ATT unix kernel where they have found out that the kernel spends a lot of time in one loop and rewritten it in assembly--it turned out it was the IDLE loop :) /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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