Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-01T11:00:29Z

On Thursday, 1 of May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > eh? I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect
> > slow things down.
>
> Yes, my bad, I realized that when I read through my message and already
> sent out a fix for my buggy email ;)
>
> > If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the
> > shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.
>
> I agree totally. And although some of the time would probably _also_ be
> spent on the frustrating crap that was designed to do the throttling, that
> isn't much more productive than watching the shopping channel would be ...

Okay, so what exactly are we going to do to address the issue that I described
in the part of my last message that you skipped?

Rafael