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"jeff millar" <wa1hco@adelphia.net> writes:
> If a kernel runs 90% efficient now, then there's only 10% additional
> improvement possible.  If you want to break new ground, then it's
> either application space or hardware.

YEah, but then the guys taking advantage of the opportunity to break
new ground in hardware turn the world on it's head -- and suddenly your
highly tuned kernel is is only 1% efficient...

-Miles
-- 
Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.
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