<<On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:34:24 -0600 (CST), Mohit Aron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Well, some difference is to be expected. But 22% ????
Flaws in the Intel SMP design make it more expensive than it ought to
be. Things like atomic RMW cycles are very, very expensive. (We had
a discussion about six months ago about how expensive something like a
locked xchg instruction actually is.)
-GAWollman
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