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From: Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: 28 Jan 2003 17:41:23 +0100
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:

> > I think this one really needs to be done with the userspace cache
> > thrashing microbenchmarks. 
> 
> If a benefit cannot be show on some sort of semi-realistic workload,
> it's probably not worth it, IMHO.

I tested an earlier version on Alpha. While it didn't yield noticeable
performance benefits, it increased the reproducability of my benchmark
a lot, which is also pretty useful.

-- 
	Falk
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