4.7 vs 5.2.1 SMP/UP bridging performance

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:55 PM -0400 2004/05/06, Robert Watson wrote:

>  On occasion, I've had conversations with Peter Wemm about providing HAL
>  modules with optimized versions of various common routines for specific
>  hardware platforms.  However, that would require us to make a trade-off
>  between the performance benefits of inlining and the performance benefits
>  of a HAL module...

	I'm confused.  Couldn't you just do this sort of stuff as 
conditional macros, which would have both benefits?

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