Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 Nov 2000 01:55:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> However, these techniques are not useful with a kernel that has an > unknown number of tasks that execute 'programs' that are not known to > the kernel at compile-time, such as a desk-top operating system.
yep, exactly. It simply optimizes the wrong thing and restricts architectural flexibility. It is very easy to optimize by making a system more specific. (this is fact is a more or less automatic engineering work) The real optimizations are the ones that do not take away from the generic nature of the system.
Ingo
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