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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:17:25 -0700
From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion
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The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default,  and was
intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.

   -Kip

On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
>
> in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
> particulary this:
>
> "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots=
.
> Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite
> frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigg=
er
> caches will only continue to drive that point home."
>
>
>
>
> What do you think about it?
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