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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Optimizing CVS? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Feb 95 16:47:16 +1100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 14:28:23 -0800
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>>In effect, you are testing system call + copyout time rather than system
>>call + fetch + copyout time.
>
>Nope.  The syscall + copyout time are relatively small.  The leaf
>routines that take the longest time are bcmp() (presumably for caching
>- 48 bcmp's per stat(), and our kernel bcmp() is the slow C version!)
>and user() (this is for all user time; presumably it's mostly for
>printf).

   The bcmp() is implemented as assembly in support.s. Why do think it is the
slow C version?

-DG