Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:54:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current paging strategy Message-ID: <20001204235434.A3400@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20001204234126.A5927@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:41:26PM %2B0100 References: <20001105175745.A42346@cicely8.cicely.de> <Pine.GSO.4.30.0012041436290.19621-100000@gecko> <20001204234126.A5927@cicely5.cicely.de>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, janb@cs.utep.edu wrote: > > what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? > > Performance critical. > Most RISC platforms are optimized for 32 and maybe 64 bit structures. > E.g. First generation alphas (without BWX) can't even access anything > smaller than 32bit in memory without doing big magic. > So one byte can become a big impact on performance. One of the reasons anything < EV56 falls out of favor by dBMS folks these days. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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