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To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
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In message <ekmr76$23g$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:

>No trying to take sides here, but for us willing to learn here, what
>exactly are the problems in Matt Dillon's suggestions? From a novice's
>POV, having per-cpu queues looks (emphasis: looks) very scalable and
>performant.

I'm not going to dissect Matts emails because that will just lead 
to a long an pointless flamewar.

Most of Matts emails focus on the specifics of implementation whereas
I have repeatedly stressed that my focus is on defining a good API
for programmers to use which will allow us to isolate the implemetation
so we can experiment with different strategies.

I will work with John to write up our spec and we will publish that
along with the reasoning soon.

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