Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:54:40 -0800
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:59:13PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> One "installation kernel" for all boards would be nice but, I am afraid,
> we suffer on Linux/Alpha from too many "speed tradeoffs" already for
> this to be really acceptable for a "production kernel".
I have't noticed a significant speed difference. Mostly that
the kernel is about 200k larger with all the extra stuff in.
I'll try to find time for some benchmarking so that I would
at least be speculating wildly with numbers in hand.
> I guess that I should try again - maybe with some of 2.2.0pre?
Please do. If there's a platform detection problem, we need
to address it soon.
r~
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