Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

From: Matthias Hensler
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 05:08:20 EST


Hi.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:02:38AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:39 +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> > > It is slightly slower,
> >
> > Sorry, but that is just unacceptable.
>
> Um... suspend2 puts extra tests into really hot paths like fork(),
> which is equally unacceptable to many people.

OK, point taken.

> Why can't people understand that arguing "it works" without any
> consideration of possible performance tradeoffs is not a good enough
> argument for merging?

It sure isn't the argument, you are right. My main concern here is to
throw away a working implementation and starting over from the scratch,
instead of solving these problems.

Regards,
Matthias
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