Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Horst von Brand
2002-12-18T14:02:57Z

Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> said:
> commence Horst von Brand quotation:
>
> > [Extremely interesting new syscall mechanism tread elided]
> >
> > What happened to "feature freeze"?
>
> How are system calls a new feature? Or is optimizing an existing
> feature not allowed by your definition of "feature freeze"?

This "optimizing" is very much userspace-visible, and a radical change in
an interface this fundamental counts as a new feature in my book.
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