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SubjectRe: corruption
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > To be honest, I have a big problem with micro optimisations
> > that prevent the big optimisations from happening.
> >
> > Would it be an idea to explicitly comment such dangerous
> > micro optimisations so people implementing the big optimisations
> > later on won't run into nasty surprises?
>
> Did you read the code we're talking about?

This particular piece of code may be a bad example of
my "complaint", but I guess we can just as easily take
something like shrink_mmap() as our example ...

regards,

Rik
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