Re: src/UPDATING

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_linux.gr>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:43:44 +0300
On 2004-08-23 10:46, Danny Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> shouldn't 
> 	NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
> now be 6.x ...

Would something like this seem ok to you?  It only mentions FreeBSD-CURRENT
instead of a specific version, so it will also work for FreeBSD 7.X when
that comes along.

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Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v
retrieving revision 1.346
diff -u -r1.346 UPDATING
--- UPDATING	21 Aug 2004 19:44:43 -0000	1.346
+++ UPDATING	23 Aug 2004 12:42:30 -0000
_at__at_ -8,13 +8,13 _at__at_
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running
 portupgrade.  Important recent entries: 20040724 (default X changes).
 
-NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
-	FreeBSD 5.x has many debugging features turned on, in
-	both the kernel and userland.  These features attempt to detect
-	incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure
-	through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics.  They
-	also substantially impact system performance.  If you want to
-	do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
+NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FREEBSD-CURRENT IS SLOW:
+	The CURRENT branch of FreeBSD has many debugging features turned
+	on, in both the kernel and userland.  These features attempt to
+	detect incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud
+	failure through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics.
+	They also substantially impact system performance.  If you want
+	to do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
 	you'll want to turn them off.  This includes various WITNESS-
 	related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags
 	in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel.  Many
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