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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HLLs vs. Assembly
Message-ID: <15708@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:17:36 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <7830@idunno.Princeton.EDU> kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes:
>However, there are times when interrupts are not enabled!

Wrong.  The scheduler clock on our systems is serviced reliably.

>Unix has an incredible amount of overhead.

Also wrong in general, although perhaps true of some implementations
if you overload them to the point that they start pagging or swapping
unduly.