Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

Jonathan Lundell
2007-04-15T19:05:41Z

On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It's a really good thing, and it means that if somebody shows that
> your
> code is flawed in some way (by, for example, making a patch that
> people
> claim gets better behaviour or numbers), any *good* programmer that
> actually cares about his code will obviously suddenly be very
> motivated to
> out-do the out-doer!

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."

--Don Foster, "literary sleuth", on retracting his attribution of "A
Funerall Elegye" to Shakespeare (it's more likely John Ford's work).