:Hi again,
:
:At 10:54 am -0700 20/7/99, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:[...]
:> It should also be noted that unless your system is entirely cpu-bound,
:> there is no cost to the kernel to zero memory because it pre-zero's
:> pages in its idle loop.
:
:Thanks to distributed.net, SETI. et al, idle cycles are fast going out of
:fashion.
:
:--
:Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118
The overhead of running seti - the OS allowing the mintick interval
to elapse when it gives seti cpu, that is - is going to be several
orders of magnitude greater then any increase in performance that you
get from trying to optimize calloc().
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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