Re: Linus strikes back :-)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

"Gianluca Guida" <glguida@gmail.com> writes (quoting Linus Torvalds):

> "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent
> idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad,
> but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM
> games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home."

It's awfully hard to know what that means.  What is "playing games
with VM"?

Whether cloning is a good thing or not depends on the particular
hardware.  Is Linux saying that it is wrong to clone on Sparcs, since
on later Wintel architectures it will be wrong?  Perhaps cloning is
better in some cases, and copying is better in some cases, and that's
that.

Admittedly, doing cloning correctly takes skill.  It's a shame that
those who had that skill are described as "incopetent idiots"

Thomas