Re: Kernel SCM saga..

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>
> But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's 
> cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call 
> and _very slow_ hardware access anyway).

Nope. System calls aren't slow. What crappy OS are you running?

> I hope my idea/opinion is clear now.

Numbers talk. I've got something that you can test ;)

		Linus
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