Subject: Re: More defines (fwd)
To: thecure <mda@lame.mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/04/1995 10:07:31
>Are there any nasty side effects to DUMMY_NOPS?
>-john

I've been using DUMMY_NOPS in every machine I run NetBSD on, for well
over a year.

Any machine with fairly decent/current hardware will not need
DUMMY_NOPS.  Realistically, you should only need DUMMY_NOPS for really
old or really poorly designed slow hardware.

YMMV.

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