Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:55:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: Bloat? (khttpd) |
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > > 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?
Downloading it isn't. Also, it sounds like it may be mucking in other places it shouldn't be... I don't know much about that though, just saw someone else mention it.
Stephen
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