Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:04:54 +0100 | From | Johnny Tevessen <> | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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Quoting Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu):
> putchar(0[hw]); > hw=+1;
Is this just me or does this sound a tiny, little bit like rpn? Or Australia. Just praise the lords that nobody considered to use BCPL instead.
> No. Unics was designed for game play.
So Linux was the first system designed with actually having applications in mind? I think Linus did it to be able to play xbill.
> Remember that a performance advantage worth 1 year of hardware > improvement won't just disappear after a year.
Since this "it isn't worth optimizing since in some months processors catch up" issue appeared the second time now, I want to say: Most users don't buy a new box to run Linux on every few months, so this point is senseless. IMHO, of course.
ciao, johnny -- Trust no-one.
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