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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: russ@elegant-software.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:33:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114.173354.218572335.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9d133bdb3481fbc01a572d948049f5e@elegant-software.com>

From: Russell Leighton <russ@elegant-software.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:21:04 -0500

> > At the risk of being egocentric, the cyclic subsystem (which is
> > executed at least 100 times per second on every Solaris system)
> > had its last substantial fix over six years ago, and its last fix
> > of any flavor over three years ago:

Yeah, if you develop at the glacial pace Solaris does, don't add any
features to cyclics or work on scalability improvment, sure it can be
bug free and untouched for 6 years.

I think all of this talk of perfect code is just trolling by the
Solaris folks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15  1:21 Russell Leighton
2007-11-15  1:33 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-15  6:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-15  7:11   ` David Miller
2007-11-15  7:43   ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-15  8:27 ` Philippe Elie
2007-11-15 13:16   ` Michael Gerdau
2007-11-15 15:10     ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-17  8:44       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-11-15 17:05     ` Chris Friesen

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