On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:31:42AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:58:16PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> > Does someone have Linus's take on why on earth he let something that
> > should definitely be in user-space (the httpd) into the kernel? It see=
ms
> > absurd to me, and odd that Linus would allow it.
>=20
> Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> benchmarks.
Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too? You would get
great performance, but something like that simply belongs in user space. I
don't think Linux deserves the benchmarks it gets if it cheats to get
them. We shouldn't let politics allow us to employ bad design (If a
registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it? No,
because it makes a mess of everything).=20
An HTTP server is something that should be in a patch, not the main kernel
tree. (Heck, software suspend and the PC-speaker driver should go in
before khttpd does.)
--
"I already have all the latest software."=20
-- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters"
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