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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--nextPart6628076.tubK0xVqZV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart6628076.tubK0xVqZV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBkZxe5ZPcIHs/zowRAkMvAJ4sDMHDPi/Aw3MOmEVviAktppTFlQCeNPxK gJanrDOMtcOsOdAcSENXK8A= =Zv9n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6628076.tubK0xVqZV--
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