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Ingo wrote:

>also, the 4:4 overhead is really a hardware problem - and there are
>x86-compatible CPUs (amd64) where the TLB flush problem has already been
>solved: on amd64 the 4:4 feature has no noticeable overhead.
>
Do you have an idea why amd64 is better for 4g4g? Which benchmark did 
you use for testing?

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    Manfred