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>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:23:34 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

  DaveM> The compiler will schedule the latency out of existence.

The kernel has many paths that have sequential dependencies.  If there
is no other work to do, the compiler won't help you.

	--david
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