On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I suspect the overall performance loss on the laptop has more to do with
> several months of focussing exclusively on the needs of 4-way and higher
> smp machines.
Probably true, we're pulling off an indecent number of tricks
for 4-way and 8-way SMP performance. This overhead shouldn't
be too bad on UP and 2-way machines, but might easily be a
percent or so.
Rik
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