Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:22:47 +0000 | | From | Ian Molton <> | | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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On a sunny Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:11:48 -0800 (PST) David Lang gathered a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal words:
> the impact is in all calls to the module, if they are far calls instead > of near calls each and every call is (a hair) slower. > > so the code can be the same and still be slower to get to. > > you can argue that it's not enough slower to matter, but even Alan admits > there is some impact.
Ok, #1 please dont send me courtesy copies without indicating so.
#2 Not all architectures have a problem with 'far' or 'near' calls, and frankly, I'm glad the kernels design isnt being crippled just to serve the fundamentally CRAP x86 architecture, for once. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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