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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:49:20 -0500
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> personally, i'm less interested in arguing point 1 from linus's post
> (there might be valid reasons to do this sometimes), which seems at
> least plausable, and much more interested in the other two. on the
> second, i think clarification is in order: that's the main advantage
> of threads over what, processes? and on that last one (the bit on
> performance and code quality) i'm *really* curious what he's talking
> about. do we have a particularly heavy fork? i'm confused. saying
> "The Linux code is just better." just *begs* for support.

I wasn't interested in #2 because #2 didn't make much sense to me.
I wasn't interested in #3 because I had no desire to discuss things
resembling personal attacks.

Don (north_)