VM config managment problems...
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Sep 10 14:53:21 UTC 2003
On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 10:36 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote:
>> But just to obsolete things for him, I'll point out that this also
>> makes a difference for 68K machines
>
> Hands up anyone running Unix on a 68k machine...?
>
> Hmm, thought not. ;)
Wait wait there is hand here in the corner. I've got TWO OpenBsd 68K
boxes running. In fact
if you go to http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/comments.html you can
see a swiki on
a Quadra 950 in action. And I know Bruce ONeel was running a 68K
NetBSD box, see that
makes three!
>> newer machines might not make a difference. Other folks INTEL and ARM
>> might what to check assembler output
>
> Even better, check benchmark times. Removing instructions has been
> known
> to make things slower. (Too many hazards in the pipeline end at the
> same
> time.)
Mm that is interesting, have you observed that on the powerpc?
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