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SubjectRe: The end of embedded Linux?
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure
> call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to
> touch a device?

On slow CPUs like embedded 386es, yup. Remember, they don't always have a
cache.

-ben
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