From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Charlie Baylis <cb-lkml@fish.zetnet.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 04:14:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308110414.28569.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F303494.3030406@techsource.com>
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 18:49, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Or closer to the point:
>
> "For each record player, there is a record which it cannot play."
> For more detail, please read this dialog:
> http://www.geocities.com/g0del_escher_bach/dialogue4.html
...
> The interactivity detection algorithm will always be inherently
> imperfect. Given that it is not psychic, it cannot tell in advance
> whether or not a given process is supposed to be interactive, so it must
> GUESS based on its behavior.
Another way of looking at it is that every time you remove a bottleneck, the
next most serious problem becomes the new bottleneck.
Does this mean it's a bad idea to stop trying to identify the next bottleneck?
(Whether or not you then choose to deal with it is another question...)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-04 19:50 [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity Charlie Baylis
2003-08-05 2:10 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 22:49 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-06 0:12 ` charlie.baylis
2003-08-06 1:23 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-06 22:24 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-11 8:14 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2003-08-11 23:49 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 0:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-12 15:04 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 23:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-13 15:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-14 6:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-14 6:59 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-14 7:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-14 7:46 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-14 20:03 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 16:40 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-14 20:00 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 16:38 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-15 18:12 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-17 2:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-17 18:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-14 19:57 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 16:35 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-15 18:17 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-16 2:29 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-14 19:54 ` Timothy Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-03 21:19 Voluspa
2003-08-04 2:34 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-03 10:14 Con Kolivas
2003-08-03 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-03 11:36 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-04 3:06 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-03 11:37 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
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