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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 16:43:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements 
Message-ID:  <199805012043.QAA09515@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805011935.MAA00654@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <19980501205833.A655@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> <199805011935.MAA00654@dingo.cdrom.com>

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<<On Fri, 01 May 1998 12:35:02 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:

> I'm not sure that making it optional would be taking best advantage of 
> it.  If it's a standard performance-enhancing feature, we'd be best off 
> adopting it as such, in line with our out-of-the-box philosophy, no?

The code which will give the best performance on a router is not
necessarily the code which will give the best performance on a host.
Ergo, we should optimize for the common case.

-GAWollman

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