On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Michael Nelson]
> > I am not trying to get in the middle of this
>
> (:
>
> > but I want to mention that they NOP out the spinlock codepaths in
> > ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll when you install/update a new kernel on a UP
> > machine.
>
> I'm not impressed unless they also NOP out the lock calls from VXDs at
> runtime. And even with NOPs you're talking about things you should
> have compiled away, like chunks of cacheline and register allocations,
> so I'm still not sure I'm impressed.
>
> Peter
>
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