Linus Torvalds on FreeBSD's Use of Copy-on-write

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

Hello!

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
>> has to do any work ever again later on." Linus didn't pull any
>> punches when he summarized:
>>
>>     "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent
>>     idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_
>>     bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside
>>     than VM games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive
>>     that point home."
>
> I would have expected something a bit less adolescent out of Linus,
> or maybe its the reporter.... I don't think it deserves a reply however.

  Maybe, it's the first sign of his senile marasmus instead? ;)))


Sincerely, Dmitry
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