On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Herb Peyerl wrote:

:  > ...and you'll drive away the retrocomputing geeks in droves.  One of
:  > NetBSD's greatest strengths is that it runs on an immense spectrum of
:  > machines from sub-1MIP VAXen and Sun-2s through bleeding-edge killer
:  > desktops.  Do you really want to lose that low end?
:
: This is a terrific point, however, I don't think we want to gain a
: reputation of "NetBSD is great if you want to run old hw, but it's
: at the expense of serious performance optimizations on newer hw
: so you're better off to run <insert other OS here>"...

Shouldn't it be possible to have more than one hashing algorithm available
for indexing the kernel's hashtables?  There are CPP conditionals that could
be used for this purpose.  <wide grin>

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