Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

The GPL that's on Linux is far more of a downside than any VM
games.

Ted

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>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."
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>What do you think about it?
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