At 10:29 AM -0700 5/18/02, Steve Fink wrote:
>On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:18:14PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 9:53 PM +0200 5/15/02, Peter Gibbs wrote:
>> >The attached patch is the next set of proposed changes to the memory
>> >management routines, with the copy-on-write logic removed.
>>
>> Peter, did these go in?
>
>I don't think so, and I don't have time to properly test at the
>moment.
>
>But on a related note, what's the status of allowing the COW stuff in?
>Peter has done some benchmarking (not much but more than people do for
>anything else) and has so far only shown speedups.
If COW speeds things up in a normal case, and is essentially
transparent to user code, I say go for it and put it in.
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