Myself and I think dsl@ looked into sysenter/sysexit in 2007 and while it

was faster, it wasn't worth the trouble.
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# $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.19 2015/02/19 11:20:43 mrg Exp $
# $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.20 2020/01/24 09:33:42 ad Exp $
THINGS TO BE DONE:
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User programs:
rwall nfs-mountees on shutdown
i386 kernel support:
make use of sysenter/sysexit instructions on PIII/4 and Athlon for
reducing syscall overhead.
This is a list of suggested smaller projects (in no particular order):
+ speed up sort(1) by using mmap(2) rather than temp files