Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: modules_install? | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:36:22 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net> said:
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> It's attitudes like that that have made Microsoft products a laughing stock. > A millisecond here and there adds up over time. In case you've forgotten, > Linux _used_ to run very well on 386 and 486 systems (in the 25 to 50 MHz > range.) What's the point in making processors faster if everyone just > wastes the increase being "correct and simple"?
Because people-time is much more expensive than computer-time this days? [BTW, shaving off a few miliseconds in loading a module is _not_ optimization, it is foolishness] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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