Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:16:19 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: winter@jurai.net, dyson@FreeBSD.org, chat@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I ask you to respond to Linus Message-ID: <199607151316.IAA06445@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199607151033.DAA00433@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jul 15, 96 03:33:35 am
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> > BTW: Dyson, I do believe that linus is trying to tease you into anger and > I noticed that the linux clowns are not saying anything about it and > from the tone of your last posting it seems that linus has accomplish > his task. > I understand that now more and more. A specific question was asked to me by Pedro, and I gave him a reasoned response -- I could, because he was being reasonable. However I redirected his question *slightly* to the problem at hand by reminding him that the discussion that I was involved with was a result of certain people making claims based upon not-yet existant benchmark results. I am not interested, nor have I volunteered any results that compare the networking suites directly (I did tell Linus what TCP localhost transfer rate that I was getting, but that was a response to a direct question.) That is what got Linus upset, because strategically, I believe that they were trying to overcome the "BSD Networking" mistique. Additionally, all they have been able to demonstrate, so far, is approximately "equivalent" performance in the networking code proper with little or no load. I think that there has been a movement in Linux to show that Linux is faster than FreeBSD, and they are showing in reality, that at best (under no load) it that is equal in certain areas... Linus must be very frustrated by that. The biggest problem is that the benchmark suite that is cited as being able to definitively show the performance difference is inadequate for the task. John
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