Subject: Re: kern/1515 - Changing netstat variables to 64 bit
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/09/1999 14:56:44 
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:33:29 -0700 
 Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> wrote:

 > Indeed, going from 32 to 64 bit counters should add one or two instructions
 > every time you increase the counter (add to the accumulator).  I don't see
 > how that can suck performance so badly.

Yah... I don't think it's that much of an issue, really.

BSD/OS has u_int64_t counters, too, so why not just go for it...

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>