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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:46:41 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000616144641.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200006160506.XAA28743@nomad.yogotech.com>

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On 16-Jun-00 Nate Williams wrote:
> > So we should just not bother squeezing more performance out of the system
> > on
> > architectural grounds?
>  Correct.  If we want performance, how about removing the difference
>  between kernel and userland.  Why have the overhead of the kernel
>  vs. userland change, since it causes us to take a big performance hit.
>  
>  As long as we're at it, we may as well embed all of the video drivers in
>  the kernel, like NT did.  X should become an embedded part of the
>  system, since that will also speed up performance again.

>  There are *LOTS* of performance improvments that can be done.  Since
>  FreeBSD is used on the internet, let's embed telnet and ftp in the
>  kernel as well.  We could certainly blow away all benchmarks that people
>  see.

OK, thanks for your amusing interlude now you can try and send a mail with some
content.

---
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


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