Re: non-offical libc with NPTL available in deb format

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:49:02 +1000, Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> said:

  Ian> It was 16K for all the tests.  I have now re-run the tests for
  Ian> all the page sizes.

Thanks!  There seems to be less of an impact than I would have guessed.

  Ian> The results look as you would expect -- you take a hit from
  Ian> bigger pages on benchmarks like these, but your gain from using
  Ian> NPTL over Linux Threads no matter what your page size is
  Ian> impressive.

That's true.  I think the clone/exit path could be sped up even more,
but I should probably just install NPTL on one of our machines and see
for myself.

	--david