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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: TCP latency
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 07:41:51 GMT
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>> On 13 Jul 1996 20:33:39 GMT, sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) said:

    SH> I have repeated my original lat_tcp measurements for the
    SH> loopback case.  It's been done on *one* processor only,
    SH> specific details:

    SH> Processor:	AMD 5x86-133, overclocked to 160 MHz
    SH> Motherboard:	ASUS PVI-486SP3, 24 MByte memory, 256 kByte cache
    SH> OS:		Either FreeBSD 2.2-960612-SNAP or Linux 2.0.0
    SH> C compiler:	gcc-2.6.3 for FreeBSD, 2.7.2 for Linux

2.7.2 seems to optimize better than 2.6.3.

FreeBSD will upgrade to 2.7.2/3 shortly. It would be nice to try this
test again then.
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