cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:27, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Please don't accidently penalize those of us with cpus that were
> designed for good all-round performance.  The P4 family was designed
> for games and 3d graphics, not all-round performance.

This is a somewhat amusing statement given that Athlon's thrash P4's at game 
playing too :)

> (This isn't aimed at anybody in particular..  I just wanted to remind
> people that the P4 code is a particularly pathological case (and the
> writing is on the wall for that core).  Other cpus, including intel's
> newer non-P4 cores, dont have the same pathological problems.)

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