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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 06:15:46 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] performance enhancement for simple_strtoul
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> > [about strtoul]
> > Perhaps I am mistaken but I'd expect it to be called what, ten times at
> > boot time, and a couple of times when X loads the MTRRs?
> 
> On second thought, ps -auxl maybe stresses simple_strtoul a little
> bit. Not sure.

Nah.  proc_pid_lookup does its own conversion from string to number, and
the rest are conversions from numbers to strings in sprintf.

-- Jamie
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