From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 10:59:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8E637BAED for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:58:49 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:58:49 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004241745.KAA71123@apollo.backplane.com> <20000424112234.A24816@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000424112234.A24816@fw.wintelcom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042412584901.09404@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think as a whole we need to evaluate the use of macros, they're > one of the major problems with changes like this and several people > have come forward over time with strong numbers showing that the > code bloat causes that comes with overuse of macros causes problems > with the I cache where inlining really doesn't pay off. Most archs > nowadays have pretty good support for leaf functions or have cheap > calls instructions. Macros CAN generate function calls :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message