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Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
From: "Joel Salomon" <salomo3@cooper.edu>
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Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 14:13:47 -0500
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Douglas A. Gwyn said:
> (Whose "Law" was it that said that file storage always
> expands to fill whatever disk resources are available?
> The same thing seems to apply to CPU cycles.)

I've seen it quoted: "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away."

Is interesting to look at various open-source projects and see which ones
get larger & slower with newer versions (gcc, KDE, linux gets larger, but
if Linus is to be believed, they *are* getting faster) and those that
*decrease* in size -- any examples, anyone? Gnome, I *think*, but that's
just because they started of with infinite bloat, nowhere to go but
smaller/faster ;-)

--Joel