OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"

2007-11-14 Thread Russell Leighton
Bryan Cantrill of Sun (ala DTrace) has a notion of perfect code: http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/on_i_dreaming_in_code He also has some examples (from bottom comment section of above): Can you list a small number of examples of "software perfection"? Posted by Russell L

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-24 Thread Russell Leighton
kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- --- Russell Leighton[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Russell Leighton
; This depend heavily on the type of project but these are points that every > software Co. has to face when starting a new project. > Yup...hard decisions. No silver bullet. > > - Davide -- --- Russell Leighton[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Russell Leighton
s not particularly good at anything (jack of all trades master of none). -- --- Russell Leighton[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Coroutines [was Re: threading question]

2001-06-16 Thread Russell Leighton
n 2001 14:33:50 -0400, Russell Leighton wrote: > > > > Is there a user-space implemenation (library?) for coroutines that would work from >C? > > > > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > Can you provide any info and/or examples of co-routine

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Leighton
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Re: threading question

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Leighton
and right - although it would not be 'pthreads compliant'. Can anybody > confirm this feeling? ... add condition variables (maybe a small per-thread storage area) and I'd toss out pthreads for most apps I write...especially if it is very efficient. -- ----

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Russell Leighton
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Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Russell Leighton
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Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Leighton
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Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-18 Thread Russell Leighton
ilger/ -- Dogbert > - > 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/ -- - Russell