Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:30:58 -0800 From: "Brett Glass" <brettglass@ml1.net> To: swear@attbi.com Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter Message-ID: <20030105223058.A84561A191@www.fastmail.fm>
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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> writes: >> 20% of a 3 GHz machine is a lot of cycles. >Roughy 20% of them. You'd have to sell a whole lot of compilers to >balance the cost of a replacement compiler with the savings of 20% fewer >computers that run the compilers, being especially hard since there are >many fewer compilers than computers. Taking this to the free software Take your time to study the excellent essay that Bernard Shifman(1) Consulting published on the subject. 20% is a lot of time. It's the difference between getting the job done or not at all. >world, 20% would hardly enough to merit tying up a team of >gcc-replacement programmers, keeping them away from more useful (in >general) projects they could effect in 100% sort of ways. There's >evidence in the fact that nobody's found it worthwhile in the last >decade, even when the percentage was much larger than 20%. Moore's Law is about to end, and as time passes, people will realize the performance matters. As of now, most people are just happy with mediocre programs, just because they're free. You could take a dump on a plastic bag and people like RMS would approve it as long as it carried a GPL sticker. (1) http://www.petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoronSpammer.html --Brett Glass -- Brett Glass brettglass@ml1.net -- http://fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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