From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 19 21:56:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11249 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 21:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA11148 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 21:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA30677 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Wed, 20 May 1998 06:55:37 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id AAA04202; Wed, 20 May 1998 00:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199805192200.AAA04202@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems In-Reply-To: <199805182001.OAA25464@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "May 18, 98 02:01:54 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dhw@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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