On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > linux optimization is a ratrace. you are only judged on > the immediate effect on your subsystem, not the system > as a whole. so unless you play the game, your system will > appear to regress over time as other optimizers take resources > away from you.
On the other hand, how many optimizations have been put into the Plan 9 kernel recently? If Linux adds 100 optimizations a year, I bet at least a few of them are going to actually improve things. Is it better to have optimized and failed than never to have optimized at all? John
