Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Andrew Morton
2008-05-01T01:32:15Z

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> You (and Andrew) have tried to argue that slowing things down results in
> better quality,

eh? I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect
slow things down.

If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the
shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.