Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Bloat? (khttpd) | Date | 22 Dec 1999 17:16:39 -0800 |
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Followup to: <19991223013142.F3089@uni-mainz.de> By author: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:58:16PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Does someone have Linus's take on why on earth he let something that > > should definitely be in user-space (the httpd) into the kernel? It seems > > absurd to me, and odd that Linus would allow it. > > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most > benchmarks. >
Performance, and *modularity*. khttpd doesn't affect anything else in the kernel, and so is a rather harmless optional feature.
-hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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