Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion



My first impression was as of Kip...
But i think Linus attitude isn`t very perfect....


The big guy is showing muscles...



On 5/1/06, Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default, and was
intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.

-Kip

On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
>
> in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
> particulary this:
>
> "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent
idiots.
> Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite
> frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and
bigger
> caches will only continue to drive that point home."
>
>
>
>
> What do you think about it?
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