The lost art of benchmarking was Re: Reiser4

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 23:12 +0200, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:

> The other day I had a discussion with the sysadmin of
> another department and our common position was:  1)  The state of
> the art in kernel building (ie use of modules and cpu detection by
> the installer) allows vendors to ship kernels whose
> performance is close enough to a custom built one the user should
> not need to bother with recompiling.  2) If the kernel you get out
> of the box is an underperformer then it is a _bug_.  

Er, a large part of the LWN audience is kernel and other low-level
systems developers.  This may seem surprising, but kernel developers
tend to compile their own kernels, and then install them.

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