Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 10:08:31 +0500 From: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), jehamby@lightside.com, imp@village.org, lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, dennis@etinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) Message-ID: <199609060508.AA079396512@fakir.india.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:44:59 MST." <199609041744.KAA06780@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>>>> "tl" == "Terry Lambert" <terry@lambert.org> writes tl> This is mostly because the BSD namei() interface is a piece of shit no tl> one seems prepared to allow a change to because there are one or two tl> CSRG hackers locked in a closet somewhere, and every once in a while tl> they shove something out under the door, and God Forbid we lose out tl> on the ability to integrate those occasional changes. On another point, I did some basic kernel profiling while doing some assorted operations (make kernel, find | cpio -O /dev/null) etc. Surprisingly `namei' turned out to be the single biggest contributor to time spent in the kernel. Koshy
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