On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:25:45AM -0700, Ross Harvey wrote:

 > > It would be really interesting to compare numbers on other archs.
 > 
 > I like the fact that DTYPE_PIPE uses unwired buffer space, and
 > doesn't compete for nmbclusters (a common bottleneck) -- but it's a bit
 > discouraging to think it only helps performance on older CPUs. Still,
 > probably worth doing.

Perhaps not just on older CPUs, but on some embedded CPUs, perhaps?  (e.g.
SH3/SH4, ARM, MIPS...)

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