Re: Silly question

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > You also get a much faster system call interface.
>
> Can you please explain? My naive understanding is it's "move stuff  
> into registers, trap into syscall" on both architectures.

The system call trap itself is QUITE slow on i386.

> - Hubert

-- thorpej