On Jun 9,  2:56pm, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/1515 - Changing netstat variables to 64 bit

| On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:33:29 -0700 
|  Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> wrote:
| 
|  > Indeed, going from 32 to 64 bit counters should add one or two instructions
|  > every time you increase the counter (add to the accumulator).  I don't see
|  > how that can suck performance so badly.
| 
| Yah... I don't think it's that much of an issue, really.
| 
| BSD/OS has u_int64_t counters, too, so why not just go for it...
| 

Yup we should just do it.

christos