Not really.
You see improvements on the order of a percent or two IFF:
- you do small reads
- in a tight loop
Ergo, that benchmark was really not worth it either.
> I think you should concentrate on read(), write() and select()
> syscalls. Those are the ones done often.
I mostly agree, although gettimeofday() under X is actually _the_ most
common one. But gettimeofday() is special anyway, simply because it
doesn't actually need to do a kernel entry, so the three you mention are
certainly "basic".
Linus
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