From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:05:16 -0400 (EDT)
2) Not inlining inb() and friend reduce the bloat but then you further
impact performances on CPUs which are generally many order of magnitude
slower than current desktop machines.
I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure
call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to
touch a device?
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