Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:59:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds on FreeBSD's Use of Copy-on-write Message-ID: <20060424225726.O33363@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0604241035s325bf2c3x96baac71eff3e7db@mail.gmail.com> References: <200604240633.k3O6XUJ0042841@chez.mckusick.com> <2a41acea0604241035s325bf2c3x96baac71eff3e7db@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello! On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jack Vogel wrote: >> has to do any work ever again later on." Linus didn't pull any >> punches when he summarized: >> >> "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 bigger caches will only continue to drive >> that point home." > > I would have expected something a bit less adolescent out of Linus, > or maybe its the reporter.... I don't think it deserves a reply however. Maybe, it's the first sign of his senile marasmus instead? ;))) Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE
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