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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 12:27:14 -0700
From:      Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        knu@iDaemons.org, will@physics.purdue.edu, sobomax@FreeBSD.org, kris@obsecurity.org, kris@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: port policies
Message-ID:  <20010508122714.B48723@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105081426.f48EPxt72473@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:25:56AM -0400
References:  <867kzsn15q.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <200105081426.f48EPxt72473@aldan.algebra.com>

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> All/most  optimizations  are  done  to  work  better  in  the  _average_
> case,  while still  working acceptably  in the  worst cases.  It remains
> my  believe,  that -j2  on  a  single-CPU  machine will  _always_  work,
> and  on _average_  will  work better.  I'll be  interested  in seeing  a
> counter-example,  but I  must  ask  for NOT  mentioning  Redmond in  any
> rebbutals. Note, that simply working slower with -j2 does not qualify.

Don't do things that the user didn't ask to be done.

If the user wants more excitment, we provide facilities that make it easy
to do so.

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