On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:49:48PM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

 > > (This is only needed because we're using our own userland versions
 > > of the context routines; this is not needed if we use the kernel
 > > versions of the routines...)
 > 
 > Which we don't want to do, because they're syscalls, and hence vastly
 > slower.

Right, I'm not passing judgement, just providing an explanation :-)

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