Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower

Manuel J. Galan (manolow@step.es)
Mon, 07 Sep 1998 16:57:57 +0100 (WEST)

On 07-Sep-98 David S. Miller wrote:
[...]
> Solaris does, and it's not only complex, it's also stupid. Find one
> algorithm that works nicely in all cases, so we don't have to maintain
> a piece of code which uses two different schemes.

With all my respect for a top kernel hacker, I think that you are
plain wrong. Multischemed algorithms are very common in many cases
(almost all sensible and sound numerical programming is multischemed)

If both algorithms are standard and well tested I see no problem
to a dynamic change of strategy between them to get the best of
both worlds...

What is good and sound for n=100 maybe is suboptimal for n=10000.

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E-Mail: Manuel J. Galan <manolow@step.es>
Date: 07-Sep-98
Time: 16:50:50

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