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Robert Love wrote:
> 
> Again, preempt seems to reign supreme.  Where is all the information
> correlating preempt is inferior?  To be fair, however, we should bench a
> mini-ll+s test.

I can't say that I have ever seen any significant change in throughput
of anything with any of this stuff.

Benchmarks are well and good, but until we have a solid explanation for
the throughput changes which people are seeing, it's risky to claim
that there is a general benefit.

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