Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> so what's different now?  for most people, more memory will be available
> for caching regular file data, so filesystem i/o will be faster since
> there will be more times when the data you're accessing is already in
> memory.  how much faster depends on what you're doing, but you'll probably
> notice the difference.

Definitely!  On my 950 Duron a make build dropped from 65 minutes to
about 52 minutes.  A nice 20 percent improvement.
On a PII 266, making GENERIC ran about 29.5 minutes, with UBC about 24
minutes.  Around 18 percent improvement.

So far the UBC code has been kicking butt. :-)

Great work!

-Andrew