> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Matti E Aarnio wrote:
(clip)
> > HOWEVER, I might want to have it as a configuration option.
> > At low-level 386/25 (my home machine) I am entirely happy
> > with 32-bit counters.
> >
> > bool 'Do you want unwrappable (64 bit) network counters ?' \
> > CONFIG_LONG_NETWORK_COUNTERS
>
> I dont know how much handling 64bit instead of 32 bit decereases
> performance, but this is definately an option.
>
This seems a little excessive to me. On my 486-33 (DX) I can
increment a long long or a short ten million times with a time
difference of only about 1.25 seconds, total time is 5 - 6
seconds. (This is with the 8k cache). Note this is also with
no optimization.
So if you lose 1.25 seconds in the week or so that the counter
flips over on a 386...
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