Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

It was written > Also, recall that Intel > launched Merced development when the idea was "bigger/faster > is better Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by Intel at all. It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for PA-RISC), with In

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

I had written. >>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC >>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. To which you replied... >Uh, no. > >The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period. Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design pape

SysV IPC message queues performance

ve seen a system call for "release quantum", which basically is put in tight loops to keep a process from hogging the cpu (release remainder of the timeslice). Does this mentality apply to freebsd, and is there such a call? Thanks VERY much in advance Regards, Jay West --- [T

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

It was written > Also, recall that Intel > launched Merced development when the idea was "bigger/faster > is better Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by Intel at all. It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for PA-RISC), with I

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

I had written. >>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC >>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. To which you replied... >Uh, no. > >The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period. Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design pap