Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:42:08 -0800 From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again Message-ID: <3C423770.5000308@isi.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.41.0201132057560.62182-100000@prg.traveller.cz> <3C41F3FD.4ECC8CD@mindspring.com> <20020113223351.A42689@FreeBSD.org> <3C4231E5.1B7FA359@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Though I do think doing the calculation is unnecessarily > high overhead for 32 bit processors... Well, if machines are fast enough to generate enough data to overflow the counters quickly, the 64bit operations can't be that much of an overhead... ;-) But I agree that it should probably be made optional for embedded systems and such. Lars -- Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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