lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Dec]   [23]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Bloat? (khttpd)
From
Date
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz@cheerful.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:31:42AM +0100, Dominik Kubla 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?

Because it's not necessary. All that needed to go into the kernel
was the DRM.

They didn't put Apache in the kernel either, just the code required
to give a nice performance boost when serving static pages.

> (If a registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it?

Yes. IIRC either KDE or GNOME (or both?) caches ASCII config files
in a binary format for fast parsing.

//Marcus
--
Signature under construction, please come back later.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:55    [W:0.662 / U:0.276 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site