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DateWed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:14 -0700 (PDT)
FromLinus Torvalds <>
SubjectRe: Slow DOWN, please!!!

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> eh?  I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect
> slow things down.

Yes, my bad, I realized that when I read through my message and already 
sent out a fix for my buggy email ;)

> If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the
> shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.

I agree totally. And although some of the time would probably _also_ be 
spent on the frustrating crap that was designed to do the throttling, that 
isn't much more productive than watching the shopping channel would be ...

		Linus


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