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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
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Cc: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>, current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fdalloc optimization
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:55:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:45:46AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > > I made a patch for fdalloc which could speed it up a bit, its stored =
under
> > > kern/85176 or http://hysteria.sk/~neologism/kern_descrip.patch
> > That's all nice and everything, but *does* it speed it up a bit? :-)
>=20
> It won't make a measurable difference, but that doesn't mean the patch
> is wrong.

Just that it's not an optimization, as it was advertised :) As
Poul-Henning said, if you can't measure a performance difference
either way then sell it some other way.

Kris

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