Re: Backporting DFly patches to FreeBSD?

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

EM1897@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Whats interesting about this is that it DOES in some
> ways relate to both FreeBSD and Dragonfly. Both are
> sacrificing what may seem to be best for the current
> world, in an effort to be better in the future world
> of dual-core and MP domination. 

At present Linux is better than any BSD variant on multiprocs
and even more on multiprocs with large number of processors. It is
perhaps even better than Solaris. This is the unfortunate reality.
Let us hope that both FreeBSD and Dragonflybsd will succeed
in bridging the gap.


> Sometimes it takes the
> efforts of those with foresight to do whats right even
> when the masses are criticizing them for doing it. In
> the end we'll all be better off.

It is a good laugh to hear about foresight for the subject you
are alluding to, when it was hardly possible to do worse.

>


--
Michel Talon