> Note I'd recommend anyone running a kernel since 1.5Y update to the following 
> change.  The performance difference on cats is rather large, and certainly 
> noticeable, timing is of doing a configure of gmake:
> 
Crikey. Thats made a huge difference on my RiscPC (acorn32) machine. The 
machine has gone from being sluggish to snappy with that change.

It actually acts like a 200MHz machine again.

> Note it'll take a while to filter out to anoncvs.
> 
Its made it.
> Thanks to chuq for sorting this out.
> 
Seconded. A much appreciated performance improvement