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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 1997 02:24:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, nate@mt.sri.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/vx if_vx.c if_vxreg.h src/sys/i386/apm apm.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC files.i386
Message-ID:  <199709230224.TAA00690@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <34270EA7.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 22, 97 05:34:47 pm

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> > Anyway, it shouldn't be to hard to make either of the old and the new
> > implementations available under a compile option, the new calling
> > API is a a superset of the old, isn't it ?
>
> NO, which is what I'm complaining about..
> I thonk it's a good idea, but since it would ha ve been so simple to
> keep a compatible API and extend, it, it seems a foolish thing to do
> to NOT do that..

I am now in favor of the new API, now that I believe it can be taken to,
effectively, O(1), O(1), O(1) for the most common cases.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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