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From: raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
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Subject: Re: Context switches? Or something else
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Date: 16 Oct 89 23:42:13 GMT
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In article <33153@cornell.UUCP>, ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) writes:
> I was very interested by the two context switch postings for
> the NeXT.   I notice that the NeXT benchmark uses native Mach
> IPC.  Did the prior benchmark use something else (pipes, or UDP or
> TCP?)

	It used pipes.  It undoubtedly doesn't show off the best
	of each Unix variant, but it's portable among all.


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Paul Raveling
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