On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > To be honest, I have a big problem with micro optimisations
> > that prevent the big optimisations from happening.
> >
> > Would it be an idea to explicitly comment such dangerous
> > micro optimisations so people implementing the big optimisations
> > later on won't run into nasty surprises?
>
> Did you read the code we're talking about?
This particular piece of code may be a bad example of
my "complaint", but I guess we can just as easily take
something like shrink_mmap() as our example ...
regards,
Rik
--
Hollywood goes for world dumbination,
Trailer at 11.
http://www.surriel.com/
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
