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Subject: Re: Ten percent test
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:14 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:

> This turned into an interactivity thing, and while interactivity is in 
> fact better for a large majority of testers, that isn't what Kolivas' 
> scheduler is about. It's about predictability and leaving the dead-end 
> road of these endlesss tweaks, which then break previous tweaks, rinse, 
> repeat.

To me, it's more than an interactivity thing.  It is also about reacting
to a dynamic environment, which the desktop is.  SD is not dynamic.

> It's unfortunate that Kolivas is having health problems currently, but I 
> certainly do hope that his scheduler finds its way into _a_ -rc1. He 
> said it was done...

Well, there I disagree with him quite strongly, but it's not my decision
what gets integrated into any tree but my own ;-)

	-Mike