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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: why is altering MINFREE discouraged ?
References: <PCG.93Oct18191520@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CF5DG9.6F@festival.ed.ac.uk> <PCG.93Oct19194620@decb.aber.ac.uk>
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In article <PCG.93Oct19194620@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>Very expensive -- both in CPU time and reduced thruput. The FFS paper
>shows that it can halve the latter and substantially raise the former.

But what processor was that on?  A Vax 780 perhaps?  Many workstations
are >20 times faster now.  Are there any recent studies to see whether
the trade-off has changed?

-- Richard
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