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Subject: Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain
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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 19:05 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Indeed, and the purpose of the benchmark is to quantify something rather than 
> leave it to subjective feeling. Fortunately if I was to quantify the current 
> kernel's situation I would say everything is fine.

Agreed.  Unfortunately everything in userspace is not fine.  I think a
lot of these interactivity problems are due to X and broken/bloated
apps.

Lee