Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Sun Apr 30 23:48:47 UTC 2006


Iantcho Vassilev wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> 
> in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
> particulary this:
> 
> "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."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> What do you think about it?

I claim that Linus is an attention whore.  How about that?

Scott


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