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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news3.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ? Date: 1 Feb 1997 11:08:47 -0500 Organization: Penn State ECSEL Computer Laboratory Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5cvpqf$4dt@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> References: <dkleinh.854654600@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <5crh6q$44j@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <87iv4ezj3c.fsf@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> <5ctlsk$df3@qnx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34956 In article <5ctlsk$df3@qnx.com>, Doug Santry <doug@qnx.com> wrote: >There can't be many people using 386s and 486SX machines out there. But >even so, 386 folks could build a kernel which instead of killing a process >that caused an illegal instruction trap, check it for a math instruction >and execute it in software. Actually, believe it or not, most of the machines running FreeBSD at PSU are 386's. I'd prefer to see the emulation code remain the default for a while.... - Dan C.