From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:01:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:01:44 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:11023 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:01:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF6FF17.EBC6661F@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:01:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap! In-Reply-To: <20010505095802.X12431@work.bitmover.com> <20010506142043.B31269@metastasis.f00f.org> <20010505194536.D14127@work.bitmover.com> <9d6qk6$i86$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20010507115659.T14127@work.bitmover.com> <3AF6F11E.3A03050E@transmeta.com> <20010507121822.V14127@work.bitmover.com> <3AF6F5B8.42F803C1@transmeta.com> <20010507122730.A19632@work.bitmover.com> <3AF6F8A5.F556DF62@transmeta.com> <20010507124422.A19774@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:33:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you > > > > can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff your system with crappy > > > > RAM and be happy." > > > I wasn't the one who said it, you did. I don't have any evidence either > > way. > > Err, Peter, it's starting to sound like you have some ax to grind that I > don't know about. So I'll bow out of this conversation. > The only axe I have to grind was the obvious application myopia of your original post... "my application is the only one that matters." That's all. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt