On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:29:44 -0500 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> wrote:

 > Why not include all of the routines, set aside enough space in the
 > "real" routines for the largest of all the possible routines, which is
 > just full of nops, and self modify that code space with the routine
 > you want to use?  Zero overhead execution time wise.  If space is a
 > concern, put each possible routine in a page aligned full page of
 > space, once the routine you want has been copied into it's final
 > destination you can give back all that space to the pager.

Someone already suggested that, and we all promptly barfed.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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