Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:01:54 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems Message-ID: <199805182001.OAA25464@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199805181801.LAA12103@pau-amma.whistle.com> References: <199805181801.LAA12103@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> >Terry will pipe up now and try to get us to optimize the rare > >case, but as any good engineer nows that penalizes the standard > >case for the rare case is always a bad idea. > > I'm certainly not even going to try to speak for Terry (or anyone else > but me). > > That said, I'll agree that optimizing for the rare case isn't generally > appropriate, but ensuring that all cases (even rare ones) are handled > *correctly*, is nearly always worthwhile. When correctness involves human behavior, you can't optimize for it, nor guarantee that it will always work. In other words, trying to gain 100% computer correctness is a bad thing when 5% of the time the incorrectness is due to human error (and unavoidable given the current resources) then it makes no sense to try to optimize any more past that point. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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