From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 13 17:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EBB37B404; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from isi.edu (n5lir8c92gyfhy11@b.postel.org [128.9.112.66]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0E1g8N27150; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:42:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C423770.5000308@isi.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:42:08 -0800 From: Lars Eggert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011203 X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jesper Skriver , Michal Mertl , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again References: <3C41F3FD.4ECC8CD@mindspring.com> <20020113223351.A42689@FreeBSD.org> <3C4231E5.1B7FA359@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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