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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: LMbench2.0 results
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:55:19 +0200
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On Monday 09 September 2002 18:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > An idea that's looking more and more attractive as time goes by is to
> > have a global config option that specifies that we want to choose the
> > simple way of doing things wherever possible, over the enterprise way.
> > We want this especially for embedded.  On low end processors, it's even
> > possible that the small way will be faster in some cases than the
> > enterprise way, due to cache effects.
> 
> Can't we just use the existing config options instead? CONFIG_SMP is
> a good start ;-) How many embedded systems with SMP do you have?

You need to look at it from the other direction: how do the needs of a
uniprocessor Clawhammer box differ from a Linksys adsl router?

-- 
Daniel
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