Why does dovecot require mysql?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 2) performance enhancements are of less priority and more involved
> than adding new features. any help would of course be appreciated
> 
> nope. we shouldnt stop adding features to better optimise the system.
> we should optimise those features to peform better instead.

Combine those two statements, and you'll end up with a system that 
nobody will want to use -- simply because it is painfully slow.  Hack, 
I'm booting my laptop into Windows more often than into Linux because of 
exactly this reason.  If the performance was comparable, Windows would 
be booted only when I needed to use MS Streets&Trips (and probably 
removed from the disk if I could get Linux equivalent).  The way it is 
now, Windows is booted whenever I want to get something done.  Linux 
only when I have spare time to fool around and nothing better to do in 
my life.  I'm not even booting Linux to show my friends.  It would be 
embarasing how slow the complete system (with GUI) is.

Linux (as complete system, not just the kernel) gained its popularity 
because it used to be small, fast, and stable.  Not because it had tons 
of bloated features that users could really live without.  If I wanted 
Windows clone, I could just left pre-installed copy of Windows.  And it 
would run much faster.

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