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SubjectRe: Bloat? (khttpd)
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Dwayne C . Litzenberger said:
>
> > > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> > > benchmarks.
> >
> > Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too? You would get
> > great performance, but something like that simply belongs in user space. I
> > don't think Linux deserves the benchmarks it gets if it cheats to get
> > them. We shouldn't let politics allow us to employ bad design (If a
> > registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it? No,
> > because it makes a mess of everything).
> >
> > An HTTP server is something that should be in a patch, not the main kernel
> > tree. (Heck, software suspend and the PC-speaker driver should go in
> > before khttpd does.)
> Come on, I don't understand the noise. You don't like it, you don't use it.
> After all compiling it in is OPTIONAL, right?
>
> marek

But what happens when the source code itself is so full of #if KQUAKE
lines that it *really* slows down development. I say "keep it simple,
stupid". The kernel should do mostly what user-space cannot (don't we
always complain how windows sucks because the GUI is kernel-based?).

I agree that some things are good in the kernel, but that doesn't mean
they should go in the main tree.

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