Quote: Memory Speed

Submitted by Jeremy
on February 6, 2008 - 11:37pm

"You can play games in user space, but you're fooling yourself if you think you can do as well as doing it in the kernel. And you're *definitely* fooling yourself if you think mmap() solves performance issues. 'Zero-copy' does not equate to 'fast'. Memory speeds may be slower than core CPU speeds, but not infinitely so!"

Linus has counted to

Nony Mouse (not verified)
on
February 7, 2008 - 2:39pm

Linus has counted to infinity ... twice ... both positive and negative infinity.

http://www.linustorvaldsfacts.com/

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Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 7, 2008 - 12:22am

The date is 2008, but is shown as 2007 in the article summary.