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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:48:26 +0300
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: src/UPDATING 
Message-ID:  <20040823134827.A0D6A43D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr>  of "Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:30:12 %2B0300." <20040823133012.GB2918@gothmog.gr> 

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> On 2004-08-23 16:21, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > > On 2004-08-23 10:46, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > > > shouldn't
> > > > NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
> > > > now be 6.x ...
> > >
> > > Would something like this seem ok to you?  It only mentions FreeBSD-CURRENT
> > > instead of a specific version, so it will also work for FreeBSD 7.X when
> > > that comes along.
> >
> > fine, but what if FreeBSD 7.X is actually faster ... :-)
> 
> The word "slower" refers to the reduced speed of a system that runs with
> a lot of debugging/test options enabled.  The relative speed of the
> release to the previous is (probably) of lesser importance for this
> particular quote.
> 

i agree, it's that once you take out the 'milestone', it might just become
superflous, on the other hand 5.x is bad, so just current is fine - one less
thing to check for.






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