From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:31:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:31:05 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:62405 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:30:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3B2FFCCE.1DA6F683@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:30:54 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) In-Reply-To: <20010619171945.I6778@thune.mrc-home.com> <20010619172814.D14119@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: > > Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks > that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a > died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance, > system design, or any elegance whatsoever. Bleh, don't go taking cheap shots at Java! Java is good at what it does, memory and performance be damned! > It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are. Yeah, and we are young and prolific too, so you better watch out! :) Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear