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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:13:01 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c
Message-ID:  <200411101513.10552.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200411091057.54867.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041109103037.73102S-100000@fledge.watson.org> <1100024464.29384.30.camel@palm.tree.com> <200411091057.54867.peter@wemm.org>

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:27, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Please don't accidently penalize those of us with cpus that were
> designed for good all-round performance.  The P4 family was designed
> for games and 3d graphics, not all-round performance.

This is a somewhat amusing statement given that Athlon's thrash P4's at gam=
e=20
playing too :)

> (This isn't aimed at anybody in particular..  I just wanted to remind
> people that the P4 code is a particularly pathological case (and the
> writing is on the wall for that core).  Other cpus, including intel's
> newer non-P4 cores, dont have the same pathological problems.)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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