On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein spake thusly:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:37:59 -0800, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > I'd be willing to bet your CPU was getting maxed because of issues
> > with your driver, rather than the md5 calculations. Depending on how
> 
> You know, I have been using computer hardware for nigh on to 40 years
> now.  And I have not recently seen such a misunderstanding of hardware
> vs. software speeds.

Heh....I assumed Christopher was implying that some combination of
excessively frequent interrupts due to the IDE/CDROM driver and context
switches to userspace to calculate the md5sum was causing the slowness.

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