solved my odd networking problem now a new interesting question

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:59:29PM -0500, Rob Gallimore wrote:

[...]
> One question I did have was this... I have noticed that
> programs origionally intended to run on Linux, seem to run faster on
> FreeBSD under the "Linux Binary Compatibility" thing. Why is this?

The standard answer used to be was that FreeBSD had a better VM system,
resulting in a `slicker' system, even with the overhead of translating
Linux syscalls into FreeBSD syscalls; but I had thought that the Linux
VM system had improved since then...
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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