a proposed callout API

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Nov 30 06:56:34 PST 2006


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200611292147.kATLll4m048223 at apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
> rites:
> 
>>    The difference between you and me, Poul, is that you always try to play
>>    cute tricks with words when you intend to insult someone.  Me? I just
>>    go ahead and insult them explicitly.
> 
> I can do that too:  You're a pompous asshole who doesn't know what
> you're talking about.
> 
> Now, does that make you feel better ?
> 
>>    In anycase, I think the relevance of my comments is clear to anyone who
>>    has followed the project.  Are you guys so stuck up on performance
>>    that you are willing to seriously pollute your APIs just to get rid of
>>    a few multiplications and divisions?
> 
> You have your project and we have ours.
> 
> You make your choices, we make ours.
> 
> You have your mailing lists, we have ours.
> 
> CTRL-D for all I care.

No trying to take sides here, but for us willing to learn here, what
exactly are the problems in Matt Dillon's suggestions? From a novice's
POV, having per-cpu queues looks (emphasis: looks) very scalable and
performant.




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