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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> This is the same for me. I'm extremely uninterested in the P-IV for my
>> own use because of this.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:59:51PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Well, then you should fix the kernel so that syscalls are done by
> sysenter (or how is it called).
> 								Pavel

ABI is immutable. I actually run apps at home.

sysenter is also unusable for low-level loss-of-state reasons mentioned
elsewhere in this thread.


Nice try, though.


Bill
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