On 5/30/2016 3:38 PM, Peter Relson wrote:

Keep in mind that a simple run showing repeated use of a service likely
does not provide overly meaningful information about the actual
performance effect of a service, since "in the absence of any contention"
is often not "real world".

And, in the absence of contention, WAIT/POST in professionally-developed software becomes orders of magnitude faster since everyone knows to skip the WAIT if the post bit is on and to attempt a "quick" POST of the ECB (using CS) if the wait bit is off.

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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

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