Re: pthread_create() slow for many threads; also time to revisit64b context switch optimization?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> The real problem is: what to do if somebody complains?

Ulrich, I don't understand why you worry more about a _potential_ (and 
fairly unlikely) complaint, than about a real one today.

Thinking ahead may be good, but you take it to absolutely ridiculous 
heights, to the point where you make potential problems be bigger than 
-actual- problems.

		Linus
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