On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:58:25 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:33:39 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> OTOH, I read about a developer who quit contributing to the Linux
>>> kernel because he was tired about devs caring about companies saying
>>> $BULLSHT_BENCHMARK now gives lower results, instead of caring about
>>> the desktop becoming faster for users. (it was about lowering latency
>>> and improving the process scheduler, which would give better speed to
>>> the desktop)
>> 
>> I hadn't read that one...
> 
> Found link:
> 
> http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm
> 
> This is the part I was referring to:
> 
> "And there are all the obvious bug reports. They're afraid to mention
> these. How scary do you think it is to say 'my Firefox tabs open slowly
> since the last CPU scheduler upgrade'? To top it all off, the enterprise
> users are the opposite. Just watch each kernel release and see how
> quickly some $bullshit_benchmark degraded by .1% with patch $Y gets
> reported. See also how quickly it gets attended to."

Will have to read it more, but interesting - thanks for the link.

Jim

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