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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:35:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> True. I think we want something in-between our ideas...
        ^^^^^^^
> a while. This should make it possible for the disk reads to
                ^^^^^^

Oh dear.. not more "vm design by waving hands in the air". Come on people,
improve the vm by careful profiling, tweaking and benching, not by
throwing random patches in that seem cool in theory.

Cheers
Chris

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