Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <17560ccf0903271348p52351481v4cc83c14037e8836 at mail.gmail.com>, Prash
ant Vaibhav writes:
>Actually OS X is more similar than that: the shared page also contains
>functions that can be called by user applications, though their entry points
>are fixed and they're not in any particular format like elf/mach-o.
>Userspace implementations of gettimeofday, bcopy etc. are provided in the
>kernel itself, which is a nice design imo as the specific version to load is
>chosen by the kernel at boot time depending on processor capabilities.

That would get my vote.


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