From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 19:44:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA04116 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:44:39 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA04108 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:44:34 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA27945; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:44:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id TAA00788; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:44:27 -0800 Message-Id: <199502070344.TAA00788@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "John S. Dyson" cc: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speed increase at CTM src-cur 304? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Feb 95 21:32:49 EST." <199502070232.VAA00213@jsdinc.root.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 19:44:26 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> We have been making ongoing improvements to the VM system and other areas >> of the kernel that will improve its overall performance - some of the recent >> ones have been quite significant. Credit for these improvements goes mostly to >> John Dyson, a small amount to me, and to Soren Schmidt who has additionally >> improved syscons performance by a factor of 5 in most cases. >> >> -DG >> > >David, whether congratulations or flames are in order, if you and I did not >work well together, we would not be making nearly as much progress as >we have been. > >Gang, There is very much a synergy between the ways that DG and >I work together (even though we have never met.) David comes up with >many (and sometimes most) of the ideas that we implement, and I code >most of the VM stuff. But as professional programmers know, that coding >is a small part of the effort, and it is difficult to distinguish between >what DG has come up with and what I have done myself. > >So... if this stuff breaks, it is your fault too, David... :-) (much humor >implied here.) I was waiting for this last part...DARN, I thought I was going to be able to blame *you* for all the mistakes! ...oh well. :-) -DG