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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: larry: you might want to add this to lmbench (but i'm not sure)
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terry, you make some interesting points. I'm curious about one comment 
though: 

> You must have explicitly turned off SIGSEGV and SIGBUS in order to
> perform these tests.  One wonders how much of your time is spent in
> the sigtrampoline code: another case of a failure path requiring
> optimization to better the score.

did you read the code? I appended it to the end of the message. It's 
fairly simple.

ron