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From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 29 Jan 1997 14:21:16 -0500
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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote in article <5cmv5q$k6d@cynic.portal.ca> <pre><blink>
]In article <5cm5h3$bfg@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
]Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
]
]> I read that as an acknowledgement that Linux caught up with
]> "standard networking stack". Otherwise, where are those horror stories
]> about current (or, 1 year old) Linux releases ?
]
]Check out <5cgfg1$jgf@cynic.portal.ca> in this very group. I notice
]that nobody's bothered to reply to any of the points I make in it.
That is because you did not make any points pertaining to the discussion;
that is, how well Linux netwroking code performance compares with
BSD code performance. You talk about organization of the code, and
how BSD's code is written in the way you consider better. Those are
2 dissimilar issues.
]> Sometimes one compromises code clarity for performance.
]
]That is not the case in any of the Linux code I've looked at.
I am not qualified to judge that claim. However, please note,
that the discussion was started by claim about superior performance
of BSD networking, rather then superior code style of BSD.
]I think the performance it really affects is that of the programmers.
Well, I read this as indirect acknowledgement that BSD's and Linux's
networking performs rather similarly well.
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