Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:36:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dyson@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@freebsd.org, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, lm@relay.engr.SGI.COM, iain@sbs.de, sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging Message-ID: <199612031336.IAA01158@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199612030730.XAA12001@neteng.engr.sgi.com> from "Larry McVoy" at Dec 2, 96 11:30:56 pm
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> FreeBSD folks, please don't beat up David for optimizing for the I/O > paths tested by lmbench. While I agree with the load vs no load points > raised, you are missing another one: smallness is goodness, and David > is almost always optimizing by making things smaller. There are plenty > of people shoveling stuff into the kernel making it slower - David is > making it smaller & faster, let him be, it's useful. > BTW, that is our emphasis also (in the VM code), and we are really fast. We are interested in friendly competition, but not interested in bragging. Some people take offense to bragging. John
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