> -----Original Message-----
> From: John S. Dyson [SMTP:dy...@iquest.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 6:58 PM
> To: w...@softweyr.com
> Cc: cro...@cs.rpi.edu; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: High syscall overhead?
>
> Think of it like this: since alot of desktops sit in idle loops much
> of the time, perhaps the Linux philosophy has been to improve such
> behavior :-).
>
[ML] Do you remember the old anecdote about a profiled ATT unix
kernel where they have found out that the kernel spends a lot of time in
one loop and rewritten it in assembly--it turned out it was the IDLE
loop :)
/Marino
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