On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:59, Terry Lambert wrote: > Personally, I like to look at the Linux register-based passing > mechanism in the same light that they look at the FreeBSD use > of the MMU hardware to assist VM, at the cost of increased > FreeBSD VM system complexity (i.e. they think our VM is too > convoluted, and we think their system calls are too convoluted).
Maybe, but they also support a lot of MMU-less architectures, so it may have made things simpler for them to not depend on MMU. I wonder if NUMA had any bearing on that as well... -- Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://drevil.warpcore.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"