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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:19:38 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> > dramatically, shell performance is way down on sparc64.
> > I'll post before and after numbers in a bit.  Note, this is
> > just with Hugh's base patch plus bug fixes.
> > 
> 
> That's interesting. The only "extra" stuff Hugh's should be
> doing is the vma traversal.

Like I said in another posting, ignore this anomaly.
It's some difference in the way the shell runs
when done from "init=/bin/sh" single user vs. full
multi-user.  Full sparc64 before/after in that posting,
go check it out it's nice :-)