> There was a study published a couple years back that showed > enabling the VT instructions can result in lower performance
Heh. The x86 instruction set offers some fancy instructions that are supposed to help you implement an OS by doing (in one swell foop) some fairly involved stuff like dumping all the CPU registers into memory as is common during task switches. I don't know if it's still true but early on some of them were remarkably slower - IIRC sometimes something like an order of magnitude slower - than an equivalent series of well chosen "normal" instructions. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/