Sun 4 \"KNEE\" Wars

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <2356 at winchester.mips.COM>, mash at mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
< [performance knees on Sun & friends]
< 
< A VAX uses a TLB, whose user portion must be flushed upon each context
< switch, i.e., in some sense, it has 1 context (although this is not
< strictly the same kind of context, as it does not need to be mass
< saved/restored).  Hence, there is no reason for a VAX to have a
< MMU-related knee anywhere.

Alternatively, it has a (smaller) knee at 1, 2, 3, .... :-)

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