On 19 Sep 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux
was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not
swapping.  And this is the common case.

Optimising the VM for not swapping sounds kind of like
optimising your system for doing empty fork()/exec()/exit()
loops ;)

cheers,

Rik
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