Re: "movb" for spin-unlock

From: Brian Parris (linuxkernel@home.com)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 22:14:39 EST


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote:

>
> Could you people stop this ridiculous thread. May-be you have much time
> to waste, but if you just want to demonstrate that Linus is an idiot, let
> me tell you that you have a loooooonnnnnnnngggggggg way to go, in my
> opinion.

I'm pretty sure linus can defend himself if he needs to, and if you don't
like the thread then don't read it, I doubt this e-mail accomplished
anything other then to annoy people.

>
> May-be you may want to also explain to me why my PII-233 seems to me twice
> slower that 18 months ago and why my early DX2-66 in 1994 gave me as fun
> and speed for computing than my PII-233 2 years ago.
>
> Instead of nitpicking this way, I would suggest you to think about an
> innovative method that would help to stop bloat softwares in a way that
> just wastes the newly available resources with no really gain in
> usability.

No gain in usability? I'm not even going to try and list the kinds of
things you can do in linux now that you couldn't do 18 months ago, not to
mention all the extra hardware linux now supports, of course if you think
a piece of code is bloat, you are welcome to rewrite it in a non-bloat
way, that would be much better than simply complaining about it.

>
> Gérard.
>
>
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