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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. 
Cc: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>,
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Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:57:48 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199705082331.QAA20330@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes:
: ...and it's not like it really _matters_... the dispatch happens
: exactly once... and, really, how expensive is looking for PT_NOTE
: compared to doing the VM stuff necessary to map the executable?

Likely in the noise.

: OLF has at least two problems:
: 
: 	(1) doesn't scale
: 	(2) unnecessarily breaks compatibility

Yup.

Warner