Re: 4.7 vs 5.2.1 SMP/UP bridging performance

From: Brad Knowles (brad.knowles_at_skynet.be)
Date: 05/07/04

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To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

    At 10:55 PM -0400 2004/05/06, Robert Watson wrote:

    > On occasion, I've had conversations with Peter Wemm about providing HAL
    > modules with optimized versions of various common routines for specific
    > hardware platforms. However, that would require us to make a trade-off
    > between the performance benefits of inlining and the performance benefits
    > of a HAL module...

            I'm confused. Couldn't you just do this sort of stuff as
    conditional macros, which would have both benefits? 

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