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    SubjectRe: Anti-Linux SMP FUD
    According to Dick Balaska:
    > Also sprach Chip Salzenberg --- 02:16 PM 1/30/99 -0500
    > >According to Matthew Kirkwood:
    > >> A lot of kernel calls are still serialised (the read and write paths, for
    > >> example), but work to reduce this is proceeding [...]
    > >
    > >Really? I thought it was simply irrelevant, as long as the path from
    > >syscall -> FS -> I/O is short enough.
    >
    > It is just that, FUD.
    > Here is an article "Linux and Samba kick NT's butt".
    > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
    > The article is not about SMP but shows general Linux I/O to be
    > twice as fast as NT. (we already knew that :)

    Yes, which means that the serialized read/write paths _are_ irrelevant.
    Like I said. Right?
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    Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
    "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."

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