Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:33:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: gzipped executables Message-ID: <199604211933.VAA15228@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604192030.NAA08890@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 19, 96 01:30:31 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors? > > Because it's circumstantial based on where the code is loaded -- and now > it's loaded at a new place and you see the problem -- an optimized loop > is wholly in cache. > > I'm suprised, given the size of the cache, that it worked at all > on Pentium boxes, ever. It even breaks on a 386sx/16 now, and i would be really surprised to learn that this one has suddenly grown cache memory. :-) Nope, Terry, your point explained some rare cases where people couldn't boot zipped kernels unless they turned off their caches, but for the zipped binaries: try again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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