Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: dhw@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems Message-ID: <199805192200.AAA04202@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199805182001.OAA25464@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "May 18, 98 02:01:54 pm"
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As Nate Williams wrote... > > >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% Right. Human stupidity ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H behaviour has been optimised for millions of years by painstakingly slow processes of evolution. We should not even consider attempts to better this ;-) ;-) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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