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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
Date: 7 Sep 1995 09:50:21 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <42lf6e$f17@helena.mt.net>, Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote:
>
>Note, BSD malloc is *extremely* fast, but for most PC systems memory is
>the main bottleneck, and not CPU speed. In the past malloc speed was
>critical, but IMHO this is no longer the case.
Hrrrmmm... is this why the XFree86 3.1.2 server takes so much
longer to get to the window manager from xdm than 3.1.1? I've tried
the SVGA, W32, S3 and Mach64 servers and all exhibit the same
behaviour. Startup time has gone from 4 to 5 seconds to about 15
seconds now.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org