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Date:      Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:50:21 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: in-kernel web server???
Message-ID:  <003201c18673$480bf9f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112161857330.5634-100000@mustard.heime.net> <E16Ffp5-0007Gn-00@rhenium> <001101c18662$3db42e20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <331062217277.20011216204618@buz.ch>

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Gabriel writes:

> Those in kernel webservers have been created
> for one particular reason: to boost Linux
> benchmark performance for a SPECweb test where
> Linux was more than twice as fast as W2K.

In other words, they built a special kernel in order to cheat on a
benchmark.

Of course, cheating is the rule on benchmarks, so they are not alone.

> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/05/0211257.shtml

Looks like another religious war.

> I don't think they've really considered using
> this stuff for production.

It's like a magician's trick:  Never ask to see it again.


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