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On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's
> > based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific
> > situation in addition.
> 
> This is reminiscent of "fur", whose source Old SCO opened.
> Google for SCO fur: amidst all the hits about "fur flying"
> you might find something useful!

Was it?  I was at Scaldera back in the days when it was supposed to get
opensourced, but AFAIK it never actually happened, everyone just talked
about it.