On Wednesday 20 February 2008 13:14, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-20 14:07]: > > On Feb 20, 2008 5:52 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-20 13:12]: > > > > On Feb 20, 2008 4:58 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-17 13:38]: > > > > > > Wouldn't it be nice to have a high performance networking stack? > > > > > > > > > > yeah. > > > > > guess what we have? > > > > > exactly that. > > > > > (which doesn't mean it could be even faster) > > > > > > > > Pardon if I sound ignorant, but isn't our networking stack based on > > > > the 24 year old technology from Berkeley? > > > > > > so? > > > isn't your computer running on >>100 years old technology called > > > "electricity"? > > > > But that >100 year old technology used to be DC earlier, then it was > > converted to AC because of its inherent benefits. > > way over a hundred years ago, yes (except for some small irrelevant > isles like parts of new york if memory serves). > > > Similarly, wouldn't it have been beneficial to go for a modern > > approach for the network stack? > > we have a very modern approach: correct, secure and fast. > > > (not that now I can do anything about it, all's lost for me) > > Could you please read http://research.sun.com/minds/2007-0710/ > > yeah, i did, lots of marketing blubber, lots of bla bla, lots of vague > indications, nothing concrete, nothing technical.
I did read this as well, and for my two tiny cents it has to be said that OBSD runs a great deal faster on my (admittedly rather elderly) Sun boxen than Solaris ever did. -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
