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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:51:43 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Chris Evans wrote:

> 
> 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.

OTOH, "careful profiling, tweaking and benching" are always limited to a
number workloads.



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