Date: 02 Aug 2003 16:18:31 -0500 From: Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembly Syscall Question Message-ID: <1059859111.1532.0.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3F2A1DDA.F8459FCA@mindspring.com> References: <20030731201227.28952.qmail@neuroflux.com> <3F2A1DDA.F8459FCA@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:59, Terry Lambert wrote: > Personally, I like to look at the Linux register-based passing > mechanism in the same light that they look at the FreeBSD use > of the MMU hardware to assist VM, at the cost of increased > FreeBSD VM system complexity (i.e. they think our VM is too > convoluted, and we think their system calls are too convoluted). Maybe, but they also support a lot of MMU-less architectures, so it may have made things simpler for them to not depend on MMU. I wonder if NUMA had any bearing on that as well... -- Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> http://drevil.warpcore.org/
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