Byte Benchmarks Various Linux Trees

urbanjunkie writes: "Moshe Bar has an interesting article, essentially benchmarking the standard kernel (with aa VM) against the -ac kernel (with Rik's VM)." He also raises some very interesting points about how patches (and entire development trees) interact.

Comments

Try XP

[mangu]

No, I do not mean eXtreme Programming -- for the ultimate centralized source repository you should try Windows XP Shared Source.

Re:Why is this funny?

[kaladorn]

I'd rather have one-click shopping for all of my patch needs so that I can spend more time writing code or playing Quake. MS understands this.

Oh good! 1 click to the latest MS Insecurity Patch!

I'm not inately against one click patching, but to suggest that Linux can't do it and Windows gets it right (seems to be what you're implying) while ignoring the side effects of some of MS more hysterical patches is somewhat like putting the cart before the horse. When MS can deliver security (of at least a reasonable degree) along with its patching capabilites and other neat ideas, then it'll be something impressive. Until then, it'll just be another Security Chasm waiting to be installed.