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Subject: Re: [9front] Speeding up snoopy(8)
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This is coming completely out of left field, but ...

On machines that support atomic 64-bit read/write, would
it be possible to map a single hardwired non-cacheable
page into every process's address space and store the
tick counter there?

--lyndon